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Inscriptions on a fragment of an ancient limestone block bring new evidence in the long controversy related to the lineage of King Tutankhamun. As it appears, when the fragment was joined with the rest of the block, the full inscription suggested that Tutankhamun's father was Akhenaten, his predecessor to Egypt&... |
18 December 2008
15:41 GMT |
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In Italy, all the ancient artifacts found are considered the property of the state and should be reported to the authorities. The law forbids selling such items and the sentences are quite harsh. Yet, that's exactly what a farmer in the southern part of the country did. As he was carrying his works, he came upon... |
18 December 2008
08:36 GMT |
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Peru once again proves the fact that it is an archaeological El Dorado, one of the few places where ancient scientific treasures lie beneath the ground, waiting to be found. Its hundreds of archaeological sites reveal the legacy of old cultures that existed thousands of years ago, spanning many cultures, such as the ... |
17 December 2008
10:56 GMT |
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Three ancient statues representing the African animal-god Amun were unearthed at el-Hassa, in Sudan, nearly three weeks ago, some 200 kms (120 miles) to the north of the capital city of Khartoum. The statues bear inscriptions that could help experts understand an ancient tongue, one of the few left undeciphered in th... |
17 December 2008
09:12 GMT |
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Ancient Greeks were among the first people to have traded their nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle for the sedentary farming ways about eight millennia ago. During the prehistoric times, which lasted until about 4,000 years ago, they constantly developed, as manufacture and trade reached unparalleled greatness in thei... |
12 December 2008
08:48 GMT |
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A group of Franciscan researchers claim they have discovered some perfume vials which resemble the ones used by the woman that the Bible mentions to have washed Jesus Christ’s feet. The archaeologists stumbled upon the amphoras while performing dig works in the biblical town of Magdala, now occupied by Israeli ... |
11 December 2008
17:51 GMT |
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A new study on the evolution of life as related to the diversity or scarceness of some chemical compounds in the oceans may shed new light on the steps to follow in the attempt to investigate the possible presence of life in the oceans of alien worlds. Life is not restricted to water, though; instead, it involves a b... |
10 December 2008
10:27 GMT |
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Italian archaeologists have uncovered an ancient pottery factory, where the oil lamps that were most used throughout the old Roman empire had been produced. As with most findings in this field of research, the discovery has been made accidentally, during excavation works carried in order to raise a residential comple... |
6 December 2008
23:01 GMT |
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Common knowledge has it that in the past, hemp, cannabis or marijuana were cultivated or used in their wild-grown form for purposes like making rope, clothes or other similar items. But a recent discovery of a tomb in the Gobi desert, dating about 2,700 years ago, indicates that this theory may be wrong. The tomb, lo... |
4 December 2008
04:54 GMT |
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A new study performed by Dolores Piperno, a staff scientist from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the National Museum of Natural History, in collaboration with Tom Dillehay, an archeology professor at Vanderbilt University, focused on analyzing teeth of ancient Peruvians. The research was aimed at dete... |
2 December 2008
08:53 GMT |
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A group of fishermen in Bulgaria are responsible for an important archaeological discovery. Just recently, they announced that, while trailing their fishing nets along the bottom of the Black Sea, searching for their daily catch, they came across what appeared to be an ancient canoe, possibly dating back to the prehi... |
1 December 2008
03:53 GMT |
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Manuscripts are documents written by hand. Before the printing process was invented (not to mention typing machines or computers), this was the only way to share facts or ideas at long distance or for lasting purposes. Ancient manuscripts are invaluable scientific tools that provide very important data on a wide rang... |
27 November 2008
09:25 GMT |
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A team of Bulgarian archaeologists has recently discovered an entire wooden chariot, sheathed with bronze platings, inside an old Thracian tomb. The ancient vehicle is thought to be about 1,800-year-old and it was found in a southeastern region of the country, close to the village of Karanovo. Alongside the chariot, ... |
22 November 2008
04:09 GMT |
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As it frequently happens, some dig works destined for maintenance and building purposes have lead to the accidental discovery of an ancient village close to Vassili village located in the central Thessaly periphery of Greece, about 170 miles (280 kilometers) north of Athens. While attempting to place a gas pipe, duri... |
21 November 2008
08:44 GMT |
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There's certainly not much new under the sun, as it can also be concluded after reading one of the world's most ancient joke books. The original manuscript is a collection of 1,600 years old Greek jokes, most of which seem strikingly familiar even today, although in a somewhat updated version. The book date... |
19 November 2008
18:01 GMT |
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As indicated in a previous article, the remains of an ancient family have recently been unearthed in Germany, close to the city of Eulau. This has also been demonstrated to be the earliest ever genetic evidence of a nuclear family discovered. The impressive batch of Stone Age graves also provided clues to the fact th... |
19 November 2008
06:34 GMT |
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A mixed Syrian-Polish group of archaeologists has come upon the remains of an old church, dating back approximately to the 8th century AD in the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria, reports the Associated Press. The experts explained that they believed the 1,200-year-old Christian church to be the largest of it... |
14 November 2008
06:57 GMT |
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For most of you, the Google Earth project doesn't require any supplementary explanation, but for those who are not that much up to date, I'll explain it briefly. The goal of the project is to map the planet's cities by means of satellite (or other high-distance aerial) images, allowing users to zoom in... |
13 November 2008
09:39 GMT |
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A 4,300-year old pyramid has been discovered at Saqqara, the ancient Egyptian necropolis and burial place of the pharaohs. The monument was lying buried under the desert sands and was effectively discovered two years ago. But the announcement comes so late because the archaeologists wanted to be sure that it was ind... |
12 November 2008
02:54 GMT |
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A team of archaeologists from Israel led by Doron Ben-Ami, a Ph.D researcher from the Hebrew University's Institute of Archaeology, has recently uncovered a precious piece of jewelry lying under layers of earth beneath a parking lot, by the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. The earring was dated to a period st... |
11 November 2008
03:52 GMT |
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Passing by the Colosseum or by other ancient Roman ruins always sparks the same dreams, and makes the same questions pop in our minds: “What was it like back then? Is it really true what they say...?” For those who don't have a very vivid imagination, but also for those who do, Virtuality, a high-te... |
7 November 2008
10:28 GMT |
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A group of Israeli researchers discovered an ancient grave in a tiny cave from the lower Galilee region of modern Israel, which they believe was a Natufian burial site for more than 28 persons. The Natufians were the first to switch to a sedentary society, according to researcher Leore Grosman and a team from the Heb... |
4 November 2008
11:09 GMT |
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Albert Yu-Min Lin, a young scientist from the University of California in San Diego, has high-set ambitions and plans to search for the tomb of Genghis Khan in the vastness of the Mongolian desert, as others have done before. Still, his type of search will not move a single grain of sand from its place, as it relies ... |
30 October 2008
09:39 GMT |
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During the 1960s, a team of archaeologists from the University of Chicago and from the Istanbul University has come upon what they believed was a regular medieval burial place. Quickly dismissed as such, the place has caught the eye of a German archaeologist, Klaus Schmidt, who knew on first sight that there was mor... |
28 October 2008
06:46 GMT |
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The wise Solomon was Israel's 3rd king from 965 BC to 925 BC, the son of King David (from the story of David and Goliath), and the owner of an enormous harem and incommensurate wealth gathered by means of mining and trading. H. Rider Haggard's best-selling novel, “King Solomon's Mines,” fue... |
28 October 2008
03:28 GMT |
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Some smugglers from Philippine were trying to transport 22 bags of ancient pottery out of the country, in order to sell it abroad for a large sum of money. The local police captured them, together with the unearthed goods, but the antique pieces of pottery proved to be a big surprise for experts. The scientists at t... |
27 October 2008
03:09 GMT |
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Researchers from the University of British Columbia recently uncovered the remains of a woman and a child belonging to the rich class buried in a tomb under their house. Mixed elements of Christian and pagan burial rituals were also discovered at the site.The remains were accidentally found by the locals almost half ... |
15 October 2008
06:48 GMT |
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Experts have found what appears to be the oldest of the footprints that ever marked the soil of the planet, in the remains of a shallow sea in Nevada. Apparently made 570 million years ago by the first animals that evolved legs, this footprint comes to push the walking advent 30 million years further in time. Re... |
6 October 2008
08:50 GMT |
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In a recent research, scientists used comparisons between ratios of thorium and titanium in the layers of cave paintings, thus calculating the age of each layer. This proved that some of the paintings were completed after even 20,000 years since they were begun. Previous beliefs had it that the cave painting pro... |
6 October 2008
05:14 GMT |
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Well, puzzles are back in fashion... because there are not too many casual games that have nice graphics... well, at least not the graphics that I like.This week's game is called Heroes of Hellas and for some reason, the majority of puzzles I see have at their base Greek Mythology. I know that it's a very n... |
20 October 2007
03:40 GMT |
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This is the oldest European mummy, 5,300 years old, and the oldest ice mummy worldwide. The mummified, frozen body of Ötzi was discovered in 1991 by accident by two German tourists and named after the Ötztal region between Austria and Italy where it was found. The body, stuck in the Schnalstal glacier offered a lot o... |
7 June 2007
05:28 GMT |
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We do not know if aliens were the ones that built the Egyptian pyramids, bringing their technique from Mars...But space technique is employed now to detect the ancient Egyptian sites. Satellites have just detected an ancient Egyptian metropolis, located 200 miles (320 km) south of Cairo. Recent digging found indeed a... |
6 June 2007
02:53 GMT |
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The ancient Greeks were placing the last few stones on the magnificent theater at Epidaurus in the fourth century B.C. In the ancient Greece, it was one of the wonders of its time.Unwittingly, the ancient builders made a sophisticated acoustic filter that enabled audiences in the back row to hear music and voices wit... |
5 April 2007
05:31 GMT |
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