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Marks on a clay tablet fragment found in Greece are the oldest known decipherable text in Europe, a new study says. Considered "magical or mysterious" in its time, the writing survives only because a trash heap caught fire some 3,500 years ago,
Dinosaurs might have been the first animals tormented by the kinds of lice that now often bedevil children, scientists now suggest. These new findings also hint that birds and mammals actually began diversifying and spreading across the world bef
Monday afternoon, a shovel operator at a Suncor oil sands mine site noticed what looked like brown discs in the black rock on a small cliff he was excavating. Per Suncor's policy, operator Shawn Funk shut off his machinery and reported that he'd
Many believed that these long necks would have been used to forage for high, hard to reach foliage, similar to that of a giraffe. However, other paleontologists believe that in order for these dinosaurs to raise their necks up high, the blood pressur
"Most of these are chipping debris from the making and resharpening of tools, but over 50 are tools. There are bifacial artifacts that tell us they were making projectile points and knives at the site," Waters says. There are expediently made too
They could be the earliest Christian writing in existence, surviving almost 2,000 years in a Jordanian cave. They could, just possibly, change our understanding of how Jesus was crucified and resurrected, and how Christianity was born.
Happy Anniversary to Buck and Jeanne, Arizona street activists
The skull and tusks of a giant primitive elephant that died up to 2million years have been discovered by builders in Chile, it emerged today. The mastodon, around the same size as modern elephants, is thought to have roamed forests and plains bef
These middens, a mixture of bones, food discards, charcoal, and human artifacts (such as clay pots and shell tools), would have provided an elevated area, drier than the surrounding marsh, allowing trees and other vegetation to grow. Bones also leake
When the bunny lived approximately 3 million to 5 million years ago, it weighed about 26 pounds (12 kilograms), about six times the size of the living European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). [Fossils of Oldest Rabbit Relative Found]
Archaeological excavation is a series of decisions: where to dig, how to dig, whether to dig large in a few places or dig small in many places. Large areal excavations are time-consuming, but they have a definite advantage. Diverse types of structure
Blackbeard the pirate. Rum and cannons. Gold doubloons and parrots. With pirates comes adventure and tales of the high seas…And for researchers exploring what may be the remains of the famous pirate's notorious flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge, advent
A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago in mud flats in southern Spain. "This is the power of tsunamis," head researcher Richard F
The team's findings will be unveiled on Sunday in "Finding Atlantis," a new National Geographic Channel special.
While many may find the concept of sunken lands a trifle disturbing (or as an old college instructor of mine would say, when questioned about Atlantis, "continents made of granite don't sink into tectonic plates made of basalt"), the need to expla
With a dental pick in hand, Karin Rice delicately scraped off a clump of asphalt from a pelvic bone belonging to a horse that roamed Los Angeles tens of thousands of years ago. Like many unsuspecting creatures of the last Ice Age, the horse probab
Long thought to be a myth, the Leviathan has been found. The fossil is well-preserved and is a testament in living stone to the terrors of the seas that early sailors faced. The 12 million-year-old creature, more than 55 feet long, has huge teeth
A Central Florida man believes he has discovered what's left of a highly advanced ancient civilization by using some new technology, and says some of the evidence is right here on the Suncoast. "Looking further, I begin to find the real beauty i
Since its discovery about 60 years ago, one of the earliest stone monuments in the history of humankind, a tower on the western edge of the ancient settlement of Tel Jericho, has inspired a number of theories about why it was built. Now, after st
Teeth found at a site near Rosh Haain in Israel are providing new information about who the earlier occupants of this region were as well as their potential evolutionary relationships with later fossils from this same region, says Binghamton Universi
"I constructed a 0.5-metre diameter structure in hazel and willow into which I placed a sharply rectangular 40kg stone from a collapsed dry stone wall," he said. "I packed the gaps inside with reeds and rolled it down a hillside. The stone fell
Tshudy, a geosciences professor at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and a widely regarded expert in crustacean fossils, has spent the past couple of years filling in a large blank in the evolution of lobsters. "It's months of long days," Tsh
These fossils were discovered in the black shale of what is called the Lantian Formation in China, and they date back to the first part of the Ediacaran Period, the time when life became big, or at least visible to the naked eye. "Animals in the Edia
A novel X-ray imaging technology is helping scientists better understand how in the course of evolution snakes have lost their legs. The researchers hope the new data will help resolve a heated debate about the origin of snakes: whether they evolve
A team at the University of Alberta, Canada, used a new "direct-dating" method called U-Pb (uranium lead) dating to establish the age of a hadrosaur's thigh bone much more accurately. A laser beam removes minute particles of the fossil, which
was a route once trod by legionnaires as they marched across a conquered land. But, eventually, the Romans left Britain and the magnificent highway they created was reclaimed by nature and seemingly lost for ever.
A sunken whaling shape—once commanded by the captain that inspired Herman Melville's Moby Dick—has been found in shallow Pacific waters off Hawaii. The classic American novel that relates the metaphysical morality tale of a 19th Century sea captain
French architect campaigning for a new exploration of the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza said on Thursday that the edifice may contain two chambers housing funereal furniture. Jean-Pierre Houdin -- who was rebuffed three years ago by Egypt
This is the earliest, most reliable evidence of wine production," said archaeologist Gregory Areshian of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). "For the first time, we have a complete archaeological picture of wine production dating b
Paleontologists quickly noticed a broken wing - and an egg nestled next to the animal's tail. The scientists are announcing her as the first prehistoric flier to be assigned a sex. She provides vital clues to the mating habits of the creatures that
