Researchers at Tel Aviv University were able to reconstruct the nutrition of stone age humans. In a paper published in the Yearbook of the American…
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Traditional Owner Ian Waina inspecting a Naturalistic painting of a kangaroo, determined to be more than 17,100 years old based on the age of overlying…
Young Dakal clan landowner Desmond Lindsay visits this site on his country for the first time. Most sites are remote and often impossible to even…
The archaeological site at a rock shelter in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert: More than 100,000 years ago, people used the so-called Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter…
Jorge Blanco’s artist impression of Llukalkan aliocranianus. Credit: Jorge Blanco and Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Ruling in the Late Cretaceous, Llukalkan aliocranianus could be as…
The AI developed by IIT researchers will analyzing satellite images in order to detect traces of hidden archaeological sites. Credit: ESA/IIT The Cultural Landscapes Scanner…
Mummified scarlet macaw recovered from Pica 8 in northern Chile. Credit: Calogero Santoro, Universidad de Tarapacá, and José Capriles, Penn State Ancient Egyptians mummified cats,…
Elephant hunting illustrations. Credit: Dana Ackerfeld A new paper by Dr. Miki Ben-Dor and Prof. Ran Barkai from the Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology…
A 9-11th century amphorae. Credit: University of York Researchers at the University of York have found chemical residues of grapes in medieval containers indicating a…
Rare “Mud Carapace” Mortuary Treatment of Egyptian Mummy Uncovered – And a Case of Mistaken Identity
Mummified individual and coffin in the Nicholson Collection of the Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney. A. Mummified individual, encased in a modern sleeve…
Ancient kauri tree log from Ngawha, New Zealand. Credit: Nelson Parker Radiocarbon measurements on the remains of 42,000-year-old New Zealand kauri trees provide the basis…
A Roman church has since the sixth century AD held relics, believed to be the remains of two apostles. Now, they have undergone scientific analysis,…
Ecological reconstruction of Cretophengodes azari. Credit: Dinghua Yang Bioluminescence has fascinated people since time immemorial. The majority of organisms able to produce their own light…
The view from Shukbah Cave. Credit: Amos Frumkin Long held in a private collection, the newly analyzed tooth of an approximately 9-year-old Neanderthal child marks…
New research suggests that overhunting by humans was not responsible for the extinction of mammoths, ground sloths, and other North American megafauna. A new study…
Engraving of Giraffes near Gobero in Niger, ca. 8,000 yrs old, witness green times in the desert. Credit: Mike Hettwer, 2006, www.hettwer.com Past River Activity…
At 31 cm in height, 18 cm in diameter (at the widest point) and up to 0.8 cm thick, this conch, which bears witness to…
The remains of an individual buried in the Augustinian friary, taken during the 2016 excavation on the University of Cambridge’s New Museums site. Credit: Nick…
Microscopic image of the fungus-like filamentous microfossils. Credit: Andrew Czaja of University of Cincinnati When you think of fungi, what comes to mind may be…