Homo erectus is thought to have migrated out of Africa some 1.8 million years ago. Did other species migrate out of Africa as well at this time? The Dmanisi skulls differ from Homo erectus, do not all ...
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Oxford University analyzed sediments from third-century a.d. […] ...
Facial tattoos have been found on the mummified remains of children who lived in Nubia some 1,400 years ago, when ...
ArtNet News reports that excavators working in the ancient Roman town of Oplontis, three miles west of Pompeii, have ...
ZME Science reports that some 270,000 beads made of scallop and cockle shells, stones, and animal bones have been found in a Copper Age grave at the Montelirio Tholos site in southwestern Spain by a ...
New DNA analysis of the remains of a Roman-era individual known as Beachy Head Woman indicates that she came from ...
Elderly and ailing, a potter named Georges-André Colas penned a six-page letter to the Regional Archaeological Service of Burgundy in October 2008. “Dear Sir or Madam, although I am aware of the ...
Many populations such as these traders in central Tibet, who live above 8,000 feet, are now known to have genetic characteristics that enable them to survive in environments where lowlanders would ...
An impressive ax head is one of hundreds of Viking artifacts found during excavations under the streets of Dublin. When Irish archaeologists working under Dublin’s South Great George’s Street just ...
There are very few places on Earth where people can’t find twigs, reeds, blades of grass, or other resources to make a basket—and people always need a way to carry their belongings or food. The ...
Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...
SCRIBE STATUE. FOUND: Lagash, Iraq. CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ...
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