Ancient History & Archeology
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'Tomb reveals warrior women who roamed the ancient Caucasus : Research Highlights - Nature
Nature
An artist's impression of two women, buried in ancient times, whose skeletons suggest that they took part in military activity.
Garbage dump' discovered in ancient Egyptian tomb dedicated to fertility goddess | Live Science
Live Science
An ancient Egyptian "garbage dump" discovered within a temple honoring the powerful female Pharaoh Hatshepsut is piled high with offerings to a ...
This Ancient, Nine-Foot-Long, 100-Pound Millipede Could Be the Largest Invertebrate to Ever Live
Smithsonian Magazine
This critter roamed Earth around 326 million years ago, and it's genus survived for 45 million years.
cranium of 4.5 million-year-old elephant shows how it become the dominant speices
Daily Mail
Conversely, the modern-day African elephant is the dominant species in ... Kourtney Kardashian almost slips out of tiny bikini in new photo as ...
Teenager discovers bronze age treasure in England (photos) - BOB fm
BOB fm
United Kingdom, Archeology, Treasure, Artifacts. Millie Hardick, a 13-year-old girl, discovered 65 artifacts in the British city of Royston, ...
New dinosaur species from Chile had a unique slashing tail, scientists say - NBC News
Some dinosaurs had spiked tails they could use as stabbing weapons and others had tails with clubs. The new species, described in a study in the ..
Fossilized cranium of 4.5 million-year-old elephant shows how it become the dominant speices
Daily Mail
Conversely, the modern-day African elephant is the dominant species in ... to the singer detailing their divorce' in new heartbreak album 30.
'Rare reptile skeleton' going back 290 million years found in the US - TRT World
TRT World
... of Southern California, and Canyonlands National Park and found a rare Permian-aged skeleton in late October, possibly a new species.
Ancient Aliens: Proof of Bigfoot Discovered in Massive Fossil (Season 4) - YouTube
YouTube
Ancient astronaut theorists believe that extraterrestrial interference might have impacted the way humans evolved, in this clip from Season 4, ...
Archaeologists Discover Almost 500 Ancient Ceremonial Sites in Southern Mexico - SciTechDaily
SciTechDaily
Tikal, the ruins of an ancient city, is one of the most famous archeological sites of Maya civilization. The discovery shifts researchers' ...
New Dinosaur Species 'Cold Bone' Found in Greenland Was Over 5-foot-tall - News18
News18
Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur that attained a length of 13 feet, was five feet tall and weighed up to 100 kg, said a report ...
Ancient tomb of Pharaoh Ramesses II official discovered at Saqqara | Live Science
Live Science
A tomb dating back over 3200 years that was built for a senior official of Ramesses II, one of Egypt's most powerful pharaohs has been discovered ...
Meet Homo bodoensis: Newly-identified ancient human species lived in Africa 500000 years ago
Daily Mail
A skull of a new species of ancient human has been discovered in Ethiopia that experts believe was a direct ancestor of modern humans.
Are these ancient ruins in Honduras the legendary 'White City'? | Live Science
Live Science
For centuries, the legendary "Ciudad Blanca" ("White City"), an ancient metropolis deep in the Honduran rainforest, eluded discovery.
The oldest foods still eaten today, after thousands of years - Archaeology - Haaretz.com
Haaretz
In the News · Settlements - Israel · Modi - NSO · Eric Zemmour · Unvaxxed · Iran - Israel · Lost temple · Tel Aviv · Kissinger - Jew · Army sites ...
Hundreds of Mayan artifacts discovered along train construction route in Mexico
CNN
... to connect beach resorts and the peninsula's interior, say it will damage the environment and potentially harm other archeological sites.
Fossilised New Zealand penguin identified as new species
BirdGuides
A recent study in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has described the find as a new species of prehistoric penguin, named Kairuku waewaeroa after ...
New tiny fish, lizard species discovered by research team that includes UW Oshkosh paleontologist
UW Oshkosh
The discoveries serve both to underscore the variety of fossils found at this site, including dinosaurs, mammals, fish, amphibians and reptiles, and ...
archeaology - latest news, breaking stories and comment - The Independent
The Independent
archeaology · How Covid sparked a rush of antiquities looting in Turkey · Tomb of 4,400-year-old 'divine inspector' unveiled in Egypt · Long lost remains ...
Mystery of the Varna Gold: What Caused These Ancient Societies to Disappear? | Travel ...
Smithsonian Magazine
Treasure found in prehistoric graves in Bulgaria is the first evidence of social hierarchy, but no one knows what caused the civilization's ...
Offa's Dyke Path at 50: an ancient earthwork still shrouded in mystery - The Guardian
The Guardian
This mighty monument, running 177 miles along the England-Wales border, offers breathtaking views and walks that entice you to keep going
Ancient faeces show Iron Age miners ate blue cheese and drank beer - New Scientist
New Scientist
There is earlier evidence for ancient cheese, found in Early Bronze Age tombs in Western China from nearly 4000 years ago, but these fossilised faeces .
archeaology - latest news, breaking stories and comment - The Independent
The Independent
archeaology · How Covid sparked a rush of antiquities looting in Turkey · Tomb of 4,400-year-old 'divine inspector' unveiled in Egypt · Long lost remains of Santa ..
New images from Mars will guide search for evidence of ancient life, says study - The Guardian
The Guardian
New images from Mars will guide search for evidence of ancient life, says study. Pictures taken by Perseverance rover show how water helped shape planet's ..
Ancient footprints could be oldest traces of humans in the Americas - Nature
Nature.com
Ancient footprints found at the New Mexico site. The tracks were dated to between 21,000 and 23,000 years old, and probably belonged to children and ...
An Ancient Lineage: Indian Wolf Among World's Most Endangered and Distinct Wolves
SciTechDaily
Stemming from an ancient lineage, Indian wolves are one of the most evolutionarily distinct and endangered gray wolf populations.
Art or not? Ancient handprints spark debate - NBC News
NBC News
Ancient handprints spark debate. A new study of handprints found in Tibet theorizes that they could be the earliest work of art ever found. Some ...
New species of human discovered in South Africa | News | DW | 10.09.2015
DW
Scientists in South Africa have announced the discovery of a new species of human called "Homo naledi." The find, which includes bones from 15 ...
Prehistoric Arabia Brought Early Humans from Africa - VOA Learning English
VOA Learning English
Scientists started to look closely for archeological remains in the ... “We noticed color patterns made by ancient lakes — sand dunes are kind of ...
Massive new animal species discovered in half-billion-year-old Burgess Shale - Phys.org
Phys.Org
Palaeontologists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have uncovered the remains of a huge new fossil species belonging to an extinct animal group in ...
Human fossils excavated in Chiayi, moved to Tainan museum - Focus Taiwan
Focus Taiwan News Channel
The discovery of the archeological site is quite significant for Chiayi and has the potential to elevate the city's cultural significance, allowing greater ...
Rebecca Wragg Sykes: 'Neanderthals were very successful at what they did, they were not failures'
EL PAÍS in English
So I wanted to write a book that brought together the entirety of what modern archeology can say about Neanderthals, including the big discoveries, but also how ...
Archaeologists staggered as skeleton DNA uncovers unknown human group - Daily Express
Daily Express
Egypt: Archeologists uncover 2,000-year-old mummies ... The skeleton was a female hunter-gatherer from the Wallacea Islands in Indonesia, who's distinct human ...
Based on the new findings, the famed rock tomb in Herefordshire, England now seems to have been part of a region-wide community of shared burial rituals.
New species of ancient four-legged whale discovered in Egypt - BBC News
BBC News
Scientists in Egypt have identified a new species of four-legged whale that lived around 43 million years ago. The fossil of the amphibious Phiomicetus ...
First ancient human DNA found from key Asian migration route - Nature
Nature.com
DNA extracted from the skull suggests the woman shared ancestry with New Guineans and Aboriginal Australians, as well with an extinct species of ancient ...
Ancient Iguana Discovery Could Solve Mysteries Of Lizard Evolution
News Every day
They have discovered a new species of lizard that dwelt in Southern Brazil not too long back---just 80 million years ago. They could indeed help to ...
Bizarre bone discoveries beneath ancient British village - Horsetalk.co.nz
Horsetalk
The evidence of the hybrid beasts unearthed in the remains of the village in Dorset point to Britain's ancient Celtic population having some form of ...
Why Did Scientists Mistake This Ancient Bird Egg For A Dinosaur Egg?
io9
Back in 2008, paleontologists discovered what appeared to be the fossilized egg of a horned dinosaur. A new study has re-identified it as belonging to ...
Ancient Urns or Drinking Vessels for Giants? Behind the Mysterious Plain of Jars in Laos
Smithsonian
Stonehenge inspires awe, but there's an even more mysterious ancient scene in Laos. The Plain of Jars consists of thousands of prehistoric stone ...
Ancient pearl dated as 2000 years old in WA's Kimberley region
ABC Online
Associate Professor Kat Szabo said the pearl is "irreplaceable" because it is the only one ever recovered from an ancient site in Australia. "A pearl has ...
Skin tissue preserved on a 2 MILLION-year-old fossil could be oldest
Daily Mail
He described the early human as a new species that he called Australopithecus sediba and is thought to be a transitional species between earlier ...
Meet the flying dinosaurs and ancient mammals that once roamed Asia!
Asian Scientist Magazine
Paleobiologists have identified a new species of flying reptile that lived over 120 million years ago in the Aptian Jiufotang Formation in northeastern ...
Ancient seashells were way cooler than modern ones
RedOrbit
While the classification of the new species has not yet been fully completed, Hendricks said that they had been “assigned to three genera of cone ...
Richard III: ancient DNA solves a 500-year-old mystery
BMC Blogs Network (blog)
The discovery was only the start of a complex process to prove the skeleton's identity. A process with genetics and the recovery of ancient DNA at its ...
Students and geology professor research ancient marine animal
Appalachian State University
Through the use of technology, Nguyen and White have created 3D models of the ancient marine animal, as well as computer simulations showing ...
Ring brings ancient Viking, Islamic civilizations closer together
Science News
An inscription on the glass inset reads either “for Allah” or “to Allah” in an ancient Arabic script, the researchers report February 23 in Scanning.
Discovery Of 8000-Year-Old Wheat Could Rewrite Ancient British History
io9
A DNA analysis of wheat found in an ancient peat bog suggests early Britons were more commercially sophisticated than previously thought.
Mummified Monk Sits Inside Ancient Buddha Statue
Discovery News
Researchers at the Drents Museum in the Netherlands made a shocking discovery when they imaged an ancient Chinese statue and found a nearly ...
Cradle of Mankind in Danger of Losing Ancient Cultures and Lands to Foreign Corporations
Ancient Origins
The Ecologist reports the valley and its inhabitants are now in jeopardy, as a land grab of “twice the size of France” is swallowing up indigenous areas ...
Oldest Fur Seal Fills 5-Million-Year Gap In Evolutionary History of Sea Lions And Fur Seals
Tech Times
The researchers have named the new species of the fur seal Eotaria crypta. The researchers also say that it is still a mystery that only one fossil of th
Evidence of Viking Outpost Found in Canada (Photos)
For the past 50 years—since the discovery of a thousand-year-old Viking way station in Newfoundland—archaeologists and amateur historians have combed North America's east coast searching for traces of Viking visitors.
Fossil found by fisherman may reveal new type of ancient human
CNN
(CNN) A fossilized human jawbone discovered by a Taiwanese fisherman, sold to an antique shop, then recovered by researchers may reveal a new ...
Tales of Ancient Sea Rise Told for 10000 Years
Climate Central
That's the conclusion of linguists and a geographer, who have together identified 18 Aboriginal stories — many of which were transcribed by early ...
Rome: Colosseum's 'ancient seating plan' revealed
International Business Times UK
Ongoing restoration work at the Colosseum in Rome, Italy has uncovered traces of red painted numerals in the arches of the amphitheatre, which ...
The secrets of ancient Egypt unravelled in Shrewsbury
shropshirestar.com
If you have ever wondered why the ancient Egyptians insisted on wrapping their dead in bandages, filling tombs with ornate trinkets, or how they ...
Ancient water distribution system found under Union Pacific Railroad tracks
The Pasadena Star-News
Archaeologists in San Gabriel have uncovered an important piece of Southern California's history: the foundation to an ancient water distribution ...
X-Rays may reveal ancient secrets in scrolls of Pompeii
USA TODAY
Ancient scrolls fused into brittle sticks of charcoal by the volcano that destroyed Pompeii can now be read thanks to a sophisticated form of X-ray scan, ...
Scientists find fossil of ancient reptile mother caring for her babies
Christian Science Monitor
The fossilized remains of a small aquatic reptile surrounded by six babies suggest that the extinct animal was caring for the little ones when they died, ...
Oldest Gospel Found In Mummy Mask: How Ancient Text Ended Up In 2000-Year-Old Egyptian ...
International Business Times
Getting to the ancient papyrus documents involves separating the paper mache by dissolving the glue that holds them together. However, not ...
Stories From The Sky: Astronomy In Indigenous Knowledge
The Awakened Wire
... home of the Wergaia people. Alex Cherney, CC BY-NC-ND Indigenous Australian practices,... ... Pure, Unfiltered News. The Awakened Wire.
Thousands of ancient coins discovered in Buckinghamshire field
BBC News
Metal detector enthusiasts in Buckinghamshire have uncovered what is thought to be one of biggest hoards of ancient coins ever found in Britain.
Ancient Greek amulet with strange palindrome inscription discovered in Cyprus
Ancient Origins
Archaeologists in Cyprus have unearthed a 1,500-year-old amulet in the ancient city of Nea Paphos in Cyprus, which contains a curious palindrome ...
Legendary Lia Fáil - The Coronation of High Kings in Ancient Ireland
Ancient Origins
It is a menhir, or upright standing stone, and many such prehistoric stones were thought to be magical by later cultures. The ancient history of the stone ...
Mystery of Ancient Chinese Civilization's Disappearance Explained
Yahoo News
An earthquake nearly 3,000 years ago may be the culprit in the mysterious disappearance of one of China's ancient civilizations, new research ...
Potential Signs of Ancient Life in Mars Rover Photos?
Astrobiology News (press release)
The article, "Ancient Sedimentary Structures in the <3.7 Ga Gillespie Lake Member, Mars, that Compare in Macroscopic Morphology, Spatial ...
Greenpeace again offends indigenous people
Before It's News
Greenpeace likes to pretend it's on the side of local people, especially indigenous peoples. But time and again they demonstrate a shocking degree of ...
The Mighty Wall of Hadrian, Emperor of Rome
Ancient Origins
Built by Emperor Hadrian of the Roman Empire, Hadrian's Wall stretches across the width of England south of its modern border with Scotland.
5 Ancient Skeletons Found in Shackles
Newser
(Newser) – Investigating an ancient Roman burial site in southwest France, researchers came upon a creepy find: Five skeletons—one of them a ...
Ancient Ephesus: A mirror of modern culture?
WND.com
Ruins at Ephesus, an ancient city in Asia Minor, now part of Turkey. ... The ancient city of Ephesus is one of the most intriguing biblical cities and one to .
Ancient coins found in Greece's mystery tomb
Phys.Org
Coins featuring the face of Alexander the Great have been found at the largest tomb ever unearthed in Greece, where archaeologists are hunting for ...
Creaky joints, sick leave, endless paperwork: Ancient Egyptian health care sounds surprisingly ...
Washington Post
When archaeologist Anne Austin began to explore an ancient Egyptian village where residents were beneficiaries of what she calls "the world's first ...
Rhino horse, a 'missing link,' could solve 55-million-year-old mystery
Los Angeles Times
So, paleontologists are fanning out to other mines in search of more ancient layers that might hold fossils that could fill in the mystery of the origin of ...
Daily Mail
Because that's when plasma physicist Dr John Brandenburg will present his theory that an ancient civilisation on Mars was wiped out by a nuclear ...
Ancient DNA sheds light on the origin of Europeans
The Conversation AU
Much of the evidence of where the first Europeans came from was originally derived from comparisons of skulls but our work looking at ancient DNA is ...
Archaeologists dig at ancient site on the edge of Syrian war zone
The Australian
ARCHEOLOGY and war don't usually mix, yet that's been the case for years at Karkemish, an ancient city along the Turkey-Syria border where an ...
Latrines, Sewers Show Varied Ancient Roman Diet
ABC News
Archaeologists noted that some types of mollusk shells found in the sewers of Herculaneum came from the ancient town's beach. Notable exceptions ...
Ancient jellyfish died a strange death
Science News for Students
Only recently did Graham Young and another expert reconstruct the ancient animal's bizarre final moments. Young is a paleontologist at Canada's ...
Ice age burial ground found in Alaska
Beta Wired
1 Archaeologists have found new information about the first residents of North America after finding an ancient burial ground for infants. Advertisement. The archaeologists found the burial ground in the Upward Sun River site in central Alaska, one of the ...
Unborn Foal Discovered In 47-Million-Year-Old Horse Fossil
Huffington Post
When paleontologists discovered the 47-million-year fossil of a prehistoric horse in 2000, they didn't yet realize a rare treasure was hidden inside. Now, high-resolution X-ray technology has revealed the Eurohippus messelensis mare was pregnant. In fact ...
'Missing link' found for spectacular ancient sea reptiles
Reuters
Fossil remains showing the first amphibious ichthyosaur found in China by a team led by a University of California at Davis (UC Davis) scientist are ...
Childhood in ancient Rome: 2000-year-old Papyri reveal 'scout clubs' and young slaves with the ...
Daily Mail
Ancient papyri show that wealthy Roman children (illustrated in this Mosaic from late antiquity rising on a camel) were enrolled in a youth organisation ...
Ancient Russian's DNA sheds light on Neanderthal interbreeding - Reuters
Ancient and Modern Europeans Have Surprising Genetic Connection - Live Sci
Photos: Ancient Animal Footprints Found at Diamond Mine in Angola
Live Science
Evidence of 118-million-year-old animal tracks suggests that the Catoca diamond mine in Angola was once a vastly different environment. It's likely ...
Thousands of Precious Objects Unearthed in Ancient Mexican City of Teotihuacan
VICE News
Archeologists in Mexico have announced an unprecedented find of at least 50,000 relics in a previously unexplored tunnel beneath a key pyramid and ...
Ancient Stone Circles In Middle East Have Archaeologists Scratching Their Heads
Huffington Post
For decades, archaeologists have had little luck in their effort to make sense of ancient stone rings that dot the landscape in Jordan and Syria.
Divers from Florida help after ancient wreck discovered
WTSP 10 News
<137>The technical divers, trained in Florida's labyrinth of underwater caves, descended 410 feet to the wreck site to retrieve many of the ancient ...
In Mexico, Archaeologists Find Incredible Relics In Ancient Tunnel
U.S. News & World Report
19, 2013 photo, released by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), shows sculptures unearthed by investigators at the ...
The Mystery of Veche 's Demise
Institute of Modern Russia
At first glance, the demise of Veche magazine might seem like ancient history. Yet the largest nationalist samizdat (i.e., self-published) magazine ...
90 million-year-old turtle found in New Mexico
UPI.com
He was surprised to learn that he had led scientists to the site of an ancient ... But 90 million years ago, the landscape was much different, says Tom Suazo, one of four scientists with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History who ...