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A team of archaeologists investigating the location of the former Syrian city of Dura-Europos stumbled across indications that 19 Roman soldiers found dead in the ruins were killed with an ancient form of chemical warfare. At the time of their deaths, around 2,000 years ago, the soldiers were defending the city, whic... |
8 March 2011
05:36 GMT |
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New archaeological evidences would appear to suggest that the dog became man's best friend millennia after it was first domesticated. Data collected from a prehistoric burial ground in Jordan indicated that early humans preferred the company of foxes to that of dogs.The conclusion was drawn after investigators l... |
28 January 2011
06:46 GMT |
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Studies suggests that some of the oldest discoveries made, and some of the most interesting conclusions derived from analyzing archaeological sites may need to be revisited, as they could be misleading.Researchers say that this may be particularly true for studies of the Stone Age and its cultures. There are some thi... |
24 September 2010
10:43 GMT |
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China is a nation that has an enormous amount of respect for its traditions and history, some of which can be found in the thousands of impressive archaeological sites the country has. In the developed world, the most important works of ancient art, regardless of whether they were carved in stone or painted on statue... |
3 August 2010
03:15 GMT |
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One of the biggest issues in the field of archeology is the fact that ancient civilizations did not bother to leave behind a full account of their history. Rather, all that remained are shards and fragments of times long gone. Some groups of individuals are only known to have existed because they left behind certain ... |
30 July 2010
05:12 GMT |
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Archaeologists found in a Swiss cave, a jaw fragment belonging to an ancient dog. After radiocarbon-dating it they concluded that it is over 14,000 years old and that it might be the earliest dog ever known.Establishing when the first fully-domesticated wolf became a dog is a rather sensitive subject among researcher... |
24 July 2010
06:50 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the University of Southampton (USouthampton) announced recently that they would develop and perfect a new imaging system for looking at ancient artifacts within a year. The technique will be used to gain more insight into the history underlying these objects, some of which have only been... |
9 June 2010
08:53 GMT |
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For many years, the most important source of information about the lives of Ancient Maya came from inscriptions on the walls of monuments, and from inside various tombs. But archaeologists soon became aware of the fact that these artifacts only depicted the lives of affluent individuals, such as aristocrats, rulers a... |
27 April 2010
19:01 GMT |
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Due to higher annual temperatures, more ice melts each year near the Arctic, in northern Canada. The location, which was inhabited by humans centuries ago, is currently beginning to reveal numerous artifacts and other signs of civilization, that are exposed by the melting ice patches. The tools were generally encased... |
27 April 2010
04:04 GMT |
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At the junction of the Euphrates and Balikh rivers, in what is now northern Syria, archaeologists are discovering more and more details about a prehistoric civilization that lived here before the invention of the wheel. The location, called the mound of Tell Zeidan in the Euphrates River Valley, near Raqqa, has remai... |
7 April 2010
03:04 GMT |
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American archaeologists working on the largest dig site in Italy ever opened for the past 50 years are currently trembling with excitement. They have recently unearthed a very intricate and weird artifact, that was buried until last summer in what was once a city neighboring the capital of the Roman Empire. The artif... |
30 March 2010
06:07 GMT |
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Researchers were recently able to use modern genetic processes to determine the primary origin of small dog breeds. These canine companions are a long way away from the wild wolves that became domesticated a long time ago, and learned how to live cooperatively with our ancestors. Smaller dogs, however, share roughly ... |
15 March 2010
18:01 GMT |
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One of the things that annoy archaeologists and historians most is the fact that ancient people were in the habit of presenting only the privileged few when designing artwork. Regardless of whether we're talking about papyrus scrolls, murals, paintings, music or text, there is always a certain group of people th... |
8 March 2010
02:53 GMT |
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African hunter-gatherers were apparently not the savage bunch many anthropologists today paint them to be. Long before the advent of fiber-optic-based communication, our ancestors used ostrich egg shells to engrave geometrical designs and other concepts on an enduring material. This happened more than 60,000 years ag... |
2 March 2010
18:11 GMT |
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Researchers have recently made a finding that could prove to be very important for determining the history of Israel. Excavations near the capital have uncovered a new segment of wall, which appears to have been built between 1000 BC and 901BC. Therefore, experts believe that it may have been the work of the historic... |
23 February 2010
01:24 GMT |
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Experts in the United Kingdom were finally able to pinpoint the exact location of one of the most decisive fights in the nation's history, the Battle of Bosworth Field. It was during this confrontation that Richard III (October 2, 1452 – August 22, 1485) was slain by his opponents, thus allowing for the Tu... |
19 February 2010
06:19 GMT |
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Scientists investigating a cave system in Oregon came across what they describe as the oldest known artifact in the America. Preliminary analysis indicates that the scraper-like tool belonged to a group of people that lived 14, 230 years ago, adding further substance to the idea that the widespread Clovis culture, wh... |
6 November 2009
19:21 GMT |
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Workers with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have recently discovered an amazingly well-preserved footprint under the Lod mosaic, one of the largest and best preserved ones in the country. The impression left in the background shows the shape of the foot and also the tracks left behind by what appears to be a ... |
16 October 2009
04:56 GMT |
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At an ancient port site, located just outside of the Italian capital city of Rome, archaeologists from the United Kingdom have discovered a new amphitheater, which they argue could have served ceremonial purposes. Roman emperors may have used the structure as a welcoming site, for foreign dignitaries traveling to the... |
1 October 2009
06:57 GMT |
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Historians knew that the Romans maintained a strong presence in what is now Germany during the peak of their empire, but a new find seems to prove that their level of establishment in the region was a lot higher than first though. At the bottom of a well in the renowned archaeological site Waldgirmes – an ancie... |
28 August 2009
06:59 GMT |
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British archaeologists working inside an abbey in Inchcolm Island have recently discovered a splintered sundial, which they believe may have originally been carved into one of the church's walls. The special kind of time-keeping instrument, known as a mass dial, was apparently the method of choice for keeping tr... |
24 August 2009
21:41 GMT |
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The Burgess Shale Formation is one of the most well-preserved archaeological sites in the world. It features a wealth of fossils, from a world that disappeared some 500 million years ago, when the area of the Canadian Rocky Mountains where it's located was a seabed teeming with life. Despite thousands of millenn... |
21 August 2009
14:51 GMT |
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While digging for fossils in the town of Chippenham, Wiltshire, in the United Kingdom, archaeologists stumbled upon the preserved remains of a squid, estimated to have lived some 150 million years ago. Inside it, much to their amazement, experts discovered ink. The substance was so well maintained, that its finders c... |
20 August 2009
09:09 GMT |
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New archaeological finds cast a new light on the life of early humans, living as far back as 72,000 years ago. It would appear that even in those remote times, toolmakers knew the fact that treating their tools thermally, as in with fire, provided a new set of traits, that could not be obtained naturally. The finds w... |
14 August 2009
02:34 GMT |
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A peculiar human statistic shows that most people who taste the chemical known as PTC find the compound very bitter. Conversely, about 25 percent of the population cannot sense it at all, and therefore has no opinion on it. Science explains this by showing that the two groups of people have different taste receptors ... |
13 August 2009
03:58 GMT |
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Italian archaeologists have recently unearthed the fossilized skeletal remains of a 4,500-year-old warrior on a beach just South of the capital city of Rome. The man, who experts believe was killed by an arrow strike to the chest, was found by an aerial police patrol, of all things. As the authorities surveyed the ar... |
3 August 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Skara Brae is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Orkney, Scotland, and one of the most important ones at that. It is one of the best preserved Stone Age settlements discovered to date, with a number of buildings uncovered, and the shape and size of streets established as well. However, its position, a few meters away fr... |
3 August 2009
09:00 GMT |
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Archaeologists discovered a few years back an ancient metropolis located on the outskirts of Venice, which may very well have been the precursor of the modern city. The old trading center, which was about as large as Pompeii, most likely flourished between 100 and 500 AD, and represented a beacon of civilization in t... |
31 July 2009
02:43 GMT |
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In an age when dinosaurs were still unheard of, animals living at the middle of the food chain had to adapt to being hunted down and killed by just about everyone else. And seeing how the largest and vicious predators owned the land, these animals turned to trees. The plants offered a rich source of food, and also pr... |
29 July 2009
02:46 GMT |
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Elephants are, at this point, the largest land mammals on Earth, and are only surpassed in size by some species of whales, which dwarf them. But they weren't always at the top of the size chart. Dinosaurs and mammoths were just a few of the creatures that made elephants look like babies, but now researchers have... |
23 June 2009
19:51 GMT |
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While investigating a cave in the southern Chinese province of Hunan, archaeologists discovered pottery fragments more than 18,000 years old, the most ancient ones ever found. Until now, the oldest pieces of ceramics ever found were created between 15,000 and 16,000 years ago, also in East Asia. While, for the rest o... |
2 June 2009
16:51 GMT |
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By 30 millennia ago, all of the big land predators in Australia had disappeared without a trace, but archaeological evidence has over the years revealed some interesting insight into what type of animals lived on the Southern continent before their extinction. One of the most peculiar was the marsupial lion, a leopar... |
10 May 2009
05:20 GMT |
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The scientific field of archeology will undergo severe make-up sessions and will be fully revitalized through the means of a new grant offered to a team of experts. The new funding received by a group of archaeologists form Brown University and engineers from the National Science Foundation is aimed to chan... |
8 December 2008
09:20 GMT |
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The media and entertainment channels have taught us that archeology is all about lavish discoveries of the artifacts of old. But a new study has demonstrated that it is not necessarily so, as archeology may provide tools that can be used in order to address contemporary issues, such as the lives of homeless peop... |
27 November 2008
04:54 GMT |
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Unless you're a hardcore fan, you probably don't know too much about The Pini Society. And if you're not into archeology and antiques, you probably don't care, either. However, you might be losing a lot, since it's always good to know at least a thing or two about archaeology and that's ... |
28 May 2008
17:06 GMT |
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