Showing posts with label Archaeology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Archaeology. Show all posts
Friday, March 20, 2015

Malarial marrow

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A Yale University team has developed a new method to identify malaria in the bone marrow of ancient human remains. It is the first time re...
Monday, March 9, 2015

Princely pottery

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I have seen a lot of Grecian urns, but never one pictured in situ. This gold-lipped one – decorated with scenes of Dionysus – was excavate...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Twins immemorial

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Behold the earliest known example of twins in the archaeological record, dating back almost 8,000 years to the Neolithic Era. Sad to say, ...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

Homo who?

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A n international team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Spain’s National Research Center on Human Evolution (CENIEH) have taken a ...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Blackbeard's booty

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" Treating the sick and injured of a sea-bound community on shipboard was challenging in the best of times," says archaeologist ...
Saturday, January 24, 2015

Scorched scrolls

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A technique used in mammography and other medical applications to distinguish details from a similarly composed background has been used t...
Sunday, January 4, 2015

Minimummy

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After 30 years of excavating a 300-acre Roman Era cemetery in Egypt, a team from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, U.S., has uncove...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Dagger diggers

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Archaeologist Stuart Needham, formerly of the British Museum and an internationally renowned expert on bronze age metalwork, thought he wa...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Doctor Syntax

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British horse-lovers are hoping that the intact skeleton discovered during the excavation for the new National Heritage Centre for Horsera...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Nazca no-no

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Peru is seeking criminal charges against members of Greenpeace , who staged a publicity stunt on Monday intended for delegates from 190 c...
Friday, December 5, 2014

Zigzag

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It was just 7 years ago that Dutch archaeologist Josephine Joordens of Leidens University noticed the scratchings in the mussel shell abo...
Friday, November 14, 2014

Fishermen's footprints

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This image, which would otherwise be a beautiful piece of abstract art, is actually evidence of Stone Age activity in what is now Denmark....
Monday, November 3, 2014

De-iced diary

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Global climate change is causing snow melts at the frozen huts of the early 20th c. Antarctic explorers, revealing Ernest Shackleton's...
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Sunday, November 2, 2014

Teotihuacan tunnel

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From a site located roughly 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Mexico City are emerging thousands of sacred objects leading archaeologists to b...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Terrible hands

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In 1965, paleontologists excavating a 70-million-year-old sandstone formation in the Gobi desert found the arms of a new species of dinosa...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Unmasked

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Researcher Marleen De Meyer of the University of Leuven in Belgium was excavating Old Kingdom cave graves in Dayr al-Barsha, Egypt, when...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Sphinx found

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An Egyptian-style sphinx has been excavated… from the sands of Guadalupe, California, U.S. It is one of 21 that flanked the set of Cecil B...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

Whether weather worshipped

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A massive 3,300-year-old cult complex has been uncovered at the Tel Burna site in Israel. The courtyard alone measures 52' x 52' ...
Saturday, October 18, 2014

Norski

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A receding glacier in Norway has revealed an almost complete ancient wooden ski . It measures 68" (172 cm) in length and 5.7" (14....

Indonesian images

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For decades, archaeologists have known about cave paintings ( IMAGES HERE ) on the island of Sulawesi east of Borneo. They were believed to ...