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Archaeologists working on a tiny patch of land called the island of St. Helena, about 1,000 miles (1,610 kilometers) off the southwestern coasts of Africa announce the discovery of a burial ground for slaves.
It is estimated that more than 5,000 of the estimated 26,000 slaves that passed through here met their end ... |
8 March 2012
10:43 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the UK, the US, Denmark and Jordan announces the discovery of some of the oldest architecture ever found, in the Jordanian desert. The hut-like buildings they uncovered are about 20,000 years old.
The findings are described in full in a paper published in the February 15 issue of the j... |
20 February 2012
02:55 GMT |
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A team of archaeologists recently discovered a new Roman-built structure in England. This would have not been particularly special if the structure weren't shaped like a wing. What's more, experts digging at the site have yet to discover any parallels for this building.
At this point, experts aren't s... |
23 January 2012
03:32 GMT |
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The Southern Continent is currently the domain of penguins and never ending ice fields, but things were not always like that. In the distant past, researchers uncovered, the forests of Antarctica were roamed by a multitude of dinosaur species. At the time, the continent beneath the South Pole was connected to Austral... |
22 December 2011
11:02 GMT |
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Until now, the archaeological site at Göbekli Tepe, in Turkey, was thought to have revealed the most ancient temples ever discovered. However, in a new study, a team of experts casts doubt on the nature of the constructions, suggesting that they were not in fact homes for the gods.
The University of Toronto ... |
10 October 2011
06:42 GMT |
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When experts began excavations at an ancient dig site in west-central Colorado, they immediately started finding bones and fossils. With time, however, the dig grew so massive that the original team needed to call in reinforcements from surrounding areas to help with the effort. In the end, this turned out to be the ... |
9 July 2011
06:58 GMT |
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Bioarchaeology is a relatively new field of science, which focuses its efforts on understanding how ancient people lived their daily lives. Its goal is to piece together a more humanistic view of old societies, than a rigid, scientific one. The Arizona State University is already involved in this work.
ASU bioarch... |
18 June 2011
05:41 GMT |
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According to a new research paper, archaeologists recently discovered the oldest mine in the Americas. The iron oxide mine has been found in Chile, and initial studies estimate its age at around 12,000 years. Details of the discovery were listed in a report published in the June issue of the journal Current Anthropol... |
19 May 2011
11:02 GMT |
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Groundbreaking discoveries indicate that the species of hominids to which the famous Lucy skeleton belongs to was bipedal, even though it populated the world some 3.2 million years ago. Furthermore, new studies show that the species' bipedal gait was very human-like. Scientists searching for fossilized human rem... |
11 February 2011
03:41 GMT |
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Four complete skulls and jaws of a Pleistocene bear species called Arctotherium, that disappeared 11,300 years ago, were found by aquatic archaeologists in a submerged cave on the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.The 25-30 cm long skulls discovered at 42 meters underwater, belong to two adult bears - one of each sex - and... |
6 November 2010
07:04 GMT |
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In a new discovery, archaeologists in Israel have found the ruins of an ancient garden, which was the symbol of power in the old days. Having the power over water in the desert was a clear indicator that you were somebody.The structures date back to the 7th century BC, experts say, and feature complex irrigation syst... |
5 November 2010
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Archaeologists conducting a routine dig around the Great Sphinx of Giza, in Egypt, have stumbled upon what look like mud walls, which were most likely used as defensive measures to protect the remarkable monument. Experts from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) of Egypt say that the walls were most likely not b... |
3 November 2010
10:22 GMT |
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A team of investigators believes that by studying a millennia-old shipwreck, they may get some insight into how ancient civilizations used trading and shipping routes in the Mediterranean Sea. The remnants belong to a ship that is estimated to have sunk around the 4th century BC, which makes it more than 2,300 years ... |
6 October 2010
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The oldest Roman baths in Asia Minor were discovered this summer in Sagalassos, Turkey, by an archaeological team led by Professor Dr Marc Waelkens, L. Baert-Hofman Professor of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.For the last 21 years, Waelkens has directed excavations at... |
10 September 2010
10:07 GMT |
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A long time before Athens and Rome became two of the most renowned cities in the world, there existed a civilization on the Danube River, in Eastern Europe, that exceeded all its contemporaries in terms of arts, sciences, and their ability to work copper, the newest materials of the time. This civilization existed ev... |
27 January 2010
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While investigating the ancient Phoenician settlement of Lixus, near Larache, in Morocco, Spanish researchers at the University of Valencia (UV) discovered in 2005 an amazing artifact. The vessel was a 2,000-year-old amphora, which was apparently used for ritual purposes. It was sealed using a special mixture of subs... |
21 January 2010
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New evidence seems to attest the belief that early hominids, such as Homo erectus, might have left Africa on rafts, hundreds of thousands of years ago. Experts suggest that stone hand axes found in the Mediterranean Basin, and on the island of Crete, might have been used by these people to construct rafts and other t... |
11 January 2010
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According to a new investigation, it would appear that the Mayans were in the habit of practicing forest conservation, archaeological pieces of evidence point out. They also conserved the land and water on their territories, and historians now believe that the time when they abandoned these practices spelled nothing ... |
23 July 2009
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A new archaeological investigation conducted on the Santa Rosa Island off the coast of Santa Barbara by scientists from the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) has revealed traces of nanodiamonds, which seem to indicate that a comet struck the location some 12,900 years ago. The team believes that traces... |
22 July 2009
09:48 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, the most defining moment for us as humans was when some of our ancestors decided to start domesticating wild animals, and settling down on a certain land. They started cultivating a relatively small variety of plants, but arguably what allowed them to remain put and survive in the then-inhospitable lands... |
23 June 2009
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More than 9,000 years ago, the stony ridges underneath Lake Huron were land bridges connecting the territories of what are now Canada and the United States. Currently buried under 100 feet (33 meters) of water, they provided archaeologists with the first ever clues that proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that the ar... |
9 June 2009
09:25 GMT |
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Despite the fact that leprosy only affected Europe after 1,000 AD, albeit with devastating consequences, archaeological pieces of evidence now seem to suggest that the disease is actually at least 4,000 years old. Remains of a victim were found in India, a discovery that could provide experts with more insight into t... |
27 May 2009
05:53 GMT |
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Workers digging at the foundation of a Peruvian home to install a new set of water pipes came across the oldest known sloth fossil in history. The animal was found buried together with a massive armadillo, which was estimated to be about the same age as the peaceful herbivorous mammal. Initial estimates say that the ... |
26 May 2009
03:57 GMT |
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A new archaeological dating technique could become as useful for dating ceramic materials as carbon dating has become for testing organic materials over the years. By using two of the basic elements on Earth, water and fire, a research team from the University of Manchester managed to devise a new process to determin... |
20 May 2009
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The ancient town of Pavlopetri was first discovered in the 1960s, at the southern tip of Greece, near the city of Neapolis. Located only a few meters under the sea floor, it represents one of the few preserved and submerged cities in the world, whose features survived well enough to merit complex archaeological inves... |
19 May 2009
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According to the results of two years' worth of excellent archeology, experts can now argue that a newly discovered “pocket of life” in Northwestern Alberta, Canada, is a missing link between species that lived further to the North, and others that lived elsewhere in what is now the country. Many fos... |
15 May 2009
05:54 GMT |
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According to recent investigations, it would appear that Stone Age people were a lot smarter than first thought. The conclusion was reached once experts managed to reverse-engineer a type of ancient superglue, which hinted at the fact that its makers were people with a high degree of cognitive skills. Used primarily ... |
13 May 2009
02:33 GMT |
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University of Michigan paleontologists Philip Gingerich, Gregg Gunnell and Bill Sanders can take great pride in the way they have managed to make important archaeological finds in the vastness of the Egyptian desert. Their story may seem a bit far-fetched at first, but the trio say that there has been no scam involve... |
29 April 2009
05:33 GMT |
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The Lahun pyramid was first discovered and excavated about a century ago, but, thus far, the mud-brick-built structure has revealed little significant secrets. On Sunday, however, the head of the excavations at the 4,000-year-old site announced that a cache of mummies had been discovered, each neatly buried in its li... |
27 April 2009
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The southern Asian continent was an area rich in developed civilizations thousands of years ago, which spoke numerous languages and dialects and left behind impressive monuments to attest for their worth. At this point, however, the archaeological and linguistic remains are so scarce, that experts can't even fig... |
24 April 2009
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Egypt’s Superior Council for Antiquities Director Zahi Hawass announced on Wednesday that a team of Egyptian archaeologists would start excavations on a new location near the ancient city of Alexandria, where they believed the bodies of the pharaoh Cleopatra and her consort Mark Antony were entombed. The couple... |
17 April 2009
09:03 GMT |
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Whenever paleontologists and archaeologists find a complete skeleton of an extinct beast, or the fossilized remains of an entire dinosaur, they are able to reduce the large mystery surrounding these animals by a tiny fraction. But all these discoveries, all the digging and the effort amounts to very little, if resear... |
16 April 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Recent digs conducted in South Lanarkshire, near the city of Biggar, in Scotland, have revealed some of the oldest known traces of the Scot population that moved to this area after the end of the Ice Age. According to the archaeologists in charge of the excavations, the objects are very similar to tools found in the ... |
10 April 2009
10:06 GMT |
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In the eve of the Passover holiday, archaeologists from the University of Haifa have just discovered a large, foot-shaped enclosure, of the kind that was described in the Bible as the place where the people of Israel would gather their armies, practice religious rituals, as well as conduct other ceremonies. Prof. Ada... |
7 April 2009
06:43 GMT |
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Tempering with portraits and pictures to hide imperfections is not something new. Even kings and queens did it, either to hide scars or deformities, or to magnify certain physical traits, depending on the purpose of the painting. However, it now appears that this type of modifications is something that has been aroun... |
31 March 2009
04:13 GMT |
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Ancient Roman legends have it that Celtic druids were not the knights in shining armor everyone thought they were, and that they were actually blood-thirsty mystics, with an appetite for human sacrifices. At the time the old legends were discovered, however, the world had already formed an opinion of the wizards, and... |
23 March 2009
05:35 GMT |
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The UNESCO World Heritage Site Burgess Shale, in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, is home to one of the greatest sources of fossils from the Cambrian Age. Complex and well-preserved remains are constantly excavated from this location, and one of the digs seems now to hold a big surprise for its discoverers. ... |
20 March 2009
04:40 GMT |
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A newly discovered dinosaur fossil seems to change a paradigm that has been in effect for several decades, and namely that only the saurischian dinosaur families had feathers or other feather-like formations on their bodies. The heterodontosaurs that was found in China was herbivorous, and was part of a completely di... |
19 March 2009
05:11 GMT |
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The remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard has been home to one of the most disturbing archaeological finds in years, and namely that of a super-sized marine hunter, dubbed Predator X. And scientists haven't called it super-sized for nothing, as its skull is about twice as large as that of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Th... |
18 March 2009
05:49 GMT |
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A new scientific report, published in the Tuesday issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), details a new species of dinosaurs that lived more than 75 million years ago. The creature is very similar to the velociraptor dinosaurs that can be seen in the “Jurassic Park” mo... |
17 March 2009
04:50 GMT |
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Archaeologists and other researchers from China and the US are currently working together to uncover a mass grave, dating back more than 90 million years ago, which contains the remains of a large dinosaur group that got trapped in mud on the banks of a freshwater lake in the Gobi desert, Inner Mongolia. Nearly all o... |
16 March 2009
07:44 GMT |
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Each time archaeologists discover something that belonged to the ancient Egyptian pharaohs, they are overwhelmed with joy upon unearthing items that are more than 2 or 3 millennia old. But recently, one of their discoveries has made the entire community buzz with excitement – researchers have found a perfectly-... |
16 March 2009
04:33 GMT |
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Recent archaeological digs in Guatemala have unearthed a monumental set of stucco panels, which seem to depict one of the oldest enduring creation myths in human history. The new find also suggests that the Mayan people believed in this story named Popol Vuh for more than a millennium, and that it was the main focus ... |
13 March 2009
08:39 GMT |
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New finds in Africa seem to answer a few of the questions related to the evolution of the human race as we know it, and particularly about the way our skulls came to have the shape they have now, rather than look like that of early primates. Scientists at the George Washington University in the US have come across f... |
3 February 2009
09:28 GMT |
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The ritual of rain-making has been with humans since our race first began harvesting plants for consumption. Since the very survival of the individuals depended entirely on the crops, the need for such a ritual came with the territory, anthropologists say. It was the shaman's job to learn the right words, and to... |
20 January 2009
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Archaeologists from the University of Leicester discovered what appears to be the oldest known remnants of chemical warfare, in the Syrian city of Dura-Europos. According to the research, presented at the Archaeological Institute of America meeting by Simon James, more than 20 Roman soldiers met their demise in tunne... |
15 January 2009
02:03 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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Amongst some of the commonest isotopes on Earth, such as carbon-11, nitrogen-13 and oxygen-15, we find the notorious carbon-14 isotope. However, while all the previously mentioned isotopes have half-lives ranging from a few tens of minutes to few seconds, carbon-14 decays much slower having a half-life of about 5730 ... |
29 January 2008
06:33 GMT |
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When they found some odd looking stones dated tens of thousands of years ago, archaeologists already made a picture of the way people lived during Stone Age. Early people left a lot of projectile points made of stone which must have been affixed to arrow and spear shafts. Are those stones really projectile points? Wh... |
26 June 2007
04:12 GMT |
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Researchers have discovered the oldest solar observatory in the Americas in 2,300 years old pre-Inca ruins. The authors found that the large Thirteen Towers of Chankillo (a ruin north of Lima), made of stone and positioned in a line, were employed for marking the sun's position throughout the year-an activity th... |
2 March 2007
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