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The discovering he has done has been controversial, because anything dating further back than 1846 is considered a heritage item, and not to be removed. An archaeologist is needed to dig up the items, but Demontigny has had trouble getting someone
"The Maqar Civilization is a very advanced civilization of the Neolithic period. This site shows us clearly, the roots of the domestication of horses 9,000 years ago."
skeletons were found in the Humboldt lake bed near Lovelock, Nevada. The first of these two skeletons found measured 8 1/2 feet tall and appeared to have been wrapped in a gum-covered fabric similiar to the Egyptian manner. The second skeleton was al
The major issues with Tiahuanaco {Tiwanaku} and the other closely located and related site of Pumapunku (Puma Punka) is the age and it's history. So, the big question, just how old are they? This is an interesting question with no easy answer. Befor
In 2004, the remains of a mosasaur nicknamed Betsy were first found. Ongoing work recently revealed the back of the skull. In 2006, pieces of another mosasaur were discovered during a school dig by participants from the town of MacGregor. The spec
compared 6000 chromosomes from all parts of the world to the Neanderthal haplotype. The Neanderthal sequence was present in peoples across all continents, except for sub-Saharan Africa, and including Australia. "The
Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Zahi Hawass, sometimes known as "the Mubarak of antiquities" for his domineering politics or "the Egyptian Indiana Jones" for his outlandish personality and hat (he once called himself "the real Indiana Jones"),
Pesky wasps once fed upon the insects gorging on rotting dinosaur eggs some 70 million years ago, suggests a new finding of ancient wasp cocoons hidden inside the fossilized egg of a titanosaur sauropod.
Insect "Frankensteins" have been discovered among fossils from a deposit in Brazil. The prehistoric creatures had the wings and middle-body segments of a dragonfly's, wing veins arranged like a mayfly and a praying mantis's forelegs.
Software developed by Israeli scholars details what researchers believe to be multiple writers behind the Bible, using an algorithm to examine texts drawn from ancient manuscripts such as this parchment believed to be part of the most authoritative m
"Far from being lifeless, bone cells have a relatively high metabolic rate and they therefore require a large blood supply to deliver oxygen. On the inside of the bone, the blood supply comes usually from a single artery and vein that pass through a
That was from Oct. 14, when workers on a reservoir dam turned over the first fossil bones (of a young female mammoth, promptly nicknamed Snowy) to last weekend, when work on the reservoir resumed. A tight contract schedule dictates that the reservo
Global Heritage Fund (GHF) based in Palo Alto, California, the ancient site of Marcahuamachuco will receive long-in-coming planning, funds, technical resources, and not-a-little local community elbow grease to conserve and restore it to at least a se
My key point is that the land mass of the Bahamas Bank was locked and cocked to subside. This immediately begs the question of whether the same holds true for all of Florida. That is the remaining exception of lands not subsided yet.
"After breaking my opponent Demetrius I did not kill him immediately," reads the epitaph. "Fate and the cunning treachery of the summa rudis killed me." The summa rudis is a referee, who may have had past experience as a gladiator.
ontroversy: An art critic has claimed the Shroud of Turin, an ancient linen sheet revered by some Christians as the burial cloth that wrapped Christ's body after his crucifixion, was created by the Italian master Giotto Now Italian art expert L
One of the most prodigious lava flow in the history of the world occurred in the Pacific Northwest. The lava spread over an estimated 200,000 square miles in depths up to 5,000 feet. In 1972, a competent geologist stated that the eruptions took place
This was the language that Sargon the Great, king of Akkad in the 24th century B.C., spoke to command what is reputed to be the world’s first empire, and that Hammurabi used around 1700 B.C. to proclaim the first known code of laws. It was the vocabu
THEY might be ancient graffiti tags left by a worker or symbols of religious significance. A robot has sent back the first images of markings on the wall of a tiny chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt that have not been seen for 4500 years.
With unprecedented access to lost portions of the Valley Temple which have long been closed to archaeologists, Temple presents a sensational, reconstructed story of this fascinating society.
The statue consists of seven large quartzite blocks and still lacks a head and was actually first discovered in the 1928 and then rehidden, according to the press release from the country's antiquities authority. Archaeologists expect to find its
Rock art specialists from around North America have finally solved this century old archaeological riddle. The stone slab is evidence that native peoples from Puerto Rico or Cuba once lived within the interior of Eastern North America.
enisova cave is located in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia, and has been an important site of human occupation for over 250,000 years. Early humans often sought out caves as sources of shelter and protection as they dispersed, repeatedly, fro
Watching an old National Geographic or Nova documentary on NetFlix the other day I was reminded all over again of how badly the English language has been mangled to achieve the objectives of collectivism.
VIENNA – A man turning dirt in his back yard stumbled onto buried treasure — hundreds of pieces of centuries-old jewelry and other precious objects that Austrian authorities described Friday as a fairy-tale find.
If putting your shoe on something sacred or revered is a sign of disrespect, then what are we to make of the present location of the London Stone, upon which the safety of the City was once believed to rest? It now sits between a rusty iron grille an
The next coronation will take place on top of a mosaic representing the exact center of the cosmos, and the end of time. That mosaic was created in 1268 by the command of King Henry II, but it has not been seen at the coronation for over 150 years. I
The bones of a soldier with leprosy who may have died in battle have been found in a medieval Italian cemetery, along with skeletons of men who survived blows to the head with battle-axes and maces. Studying ancient leprosy, which is caused by a
A German World War II-era Dornier 17 bomber, seen through high-tech sonar equipment, lies on the sea floor off the coast of Kent, England. The plane was shot down during the Battle of Britain in 1940 and was hidden for years by shifting sands...
Archeologists say they've made a unique discovery in the Czech Republic: 5,000-year-old remains of a human male who was buried in a way traditionally only reserved for females.
