Researchers from the University of Florida have pulled almost 100 fossils from a flooded cave in the Bahamas, and the story they tell is one of triumph; that is until humans came into the picture. Out of 39 species examined, 22 of them disappeared after the arrival of humans some 1,000 years ago. The 39 ...
In a land dotted with ancient dolmens or tombs from a time before the urban centers of civilization had arisen in Mesopotamia and Egypt, stands a monument as old as Stonehenge. According to local legend, it was the “land of ancient giants.” The monument is called Rujm el-Hiri, which means “the stone heap of the wild cat” or ...
Archaeologists from the University of York have now revealed new insights into food choices and the eating habits at the late Neolithic monument at Durrington Walls otherwise known as Stonehenge. It is also believed to be the residence of the Stonehenge builders during 2500 B.C. Working with researchers from the University of Sheffield, the team ...
In your childhood or school days, you may have heard and read about the 7 wonders of the world. However, not everyone is fully aware of the whereabouts of the so-called 7 wonders of the world. Ancient travelers and historians wrote at length about some amazing and magnificent artwork and human creations that over the ...
Have you ever wanted to go to the Kenyan desert and go on a hunt for fossils? Now, you can be an armchair archaeologist without even leaving home. The University of Bradford and Turkana Basin Institute have started a collaborative online citizen science initiative called Fossil Finder. Members of the public have been asked to help ...
A man-made submerged monolith has been discovered 131 feet (12 meters) below the waters of the Sicilian Channel between Tunisia and Sicily. It weighs approximately 30,000 pounds (15 tons), is 40 feet (12 meters) long, and it’s believed to date back at least 10,000 years. The archaeologist’s discovery offers new insight into historic Mediterranean civilizations. The ...
Scientists have been excavating the ruins of Tikal, an ancient Maya city in modern-day Guatemala, since the 1950s — and thanks to those many decades spent documenting details of every structure and cataloging each excavated item, Tikal has become one of the best understood and most thoroughly studied archaeological sites in the world. But a ...
A new study led by Arizona State University paleoanthropologist Curtis Marean and ASU doctoral graduate Emily Hallett details more than 60 bone tools and one tool made from the tooth of a cetacean, which includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises. These finds, first unearthed from Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco, in 2011, are highly suggestive proxy evidence for the earliest clothing in ...
The recent unearthing of a 1,500-year-old burial site in China exposed the skeletons of a couple locked in an embrace. Adages like ‘till death do us apart’ are part of our emotions and we make this promise to our loved ones. But there have been certain couples who did not let even death keep them ...
Pioneering technology has helped experts find a lost camp built and used by thousands of Roman soldiers sent to conquer Northwest Iberia. The discovery is the largest and oldest Roman military fortified enclosure excavated so far in Galicia and northern Portugal. The foundations of the enclosure wall date from around the second century B.C. Experts ...
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