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After hundreds of years submerged in sea water, marine archaeological objects are complex materials due to degradation and inclusion of foreign compounds from the surrounding environment. When excavated and exposed to air these can transform to damag
"We didn't expect to see this at all," said Dr Cincotta. "For decades palaeontologists have argued about whether pterosaurs had feathers. The feathers in our specimen close off that debate for good as they are very clearly branched all the way al
The archeological site of Pompeii is employing a pair of robots to help monitor the state of preservation of ancient structures, and to gather information underground where it's too dangerous or precarious for humans to go.
Step inside an ancient Pompeian home! Scientists use virtual reality to reconstruct the stunning House of Greek Epigrams before it was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 1,900 years ago
You can't land there! Moment paraglider swoops over the top of the Pyramids and captures stunning aerial footage of the Sphinx
Further analysis of bones collected from the Bluefish Caves in Yukon is expanding scientists' understanding of what early Americans were up to Beringia 15,000 Years Ago. Painting produced by Videoanthrop Inc., Montreal/M. François Girard. Canadian
Archaeologists have located two enormous secret voids inside the Great Pyramid of Giza that they believe could be hiding the lost tomb of the mythical Pharaoh Khufu
From confining plasma for nuclear fusion to solving 50-year protein folding problems, DeepMind's AI is starting to prove itself on the frontiers of modern science.
Peru's Wari empire may have mixed hallucinogenic seeds into beer to maintain political control and help leaders bond with ordinary people over 1,000 years ago, researchers say
Archaeologists in Spain have found the remains of a series of buildings which they believe to be the lost temple of Hercules.
During the time dinosaurs dominated the land, giant marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs ruled the sea. They're known as the planet's first giants, and they could grow to more than 50 feet long, around the size of modern-day sperm whales, Vishwam Sa
It still collapsed around 1159 BC and may have been simply overrun by our Dorian invaders from the Baltic fleeing starvation. The Terramare Culture and the Bronze Age Collapse In Bronze Age northern Italy the Terramare culture thrived for centu
In this way, according to the researchers, early humans repeatedly overhunted large animals to extinction (or until they became so rare that they disappeared from the archaeological record) and then went on to the next in size improving their hunt
When, in 2006, I started my Ph.D. at Newcastle, a University so awful that even the staff had walked out, a small detail curiously omitted from their website, I had little idea how prevalent Science Denial had become. Not only was my engineering sci
In May of 2019, Josh Sigurdson went searching alongside Anam Paiseanta and Micah Ostrander for the lost ancient city of Atlantis. Where? In the middle of the Sahara Desert in Mauritania, Africa.
For many years, Gobekli Tepe was considered to be the oldest human settlement. Previously taking the title of the first temple in the world, archaeologists recently unearthed Boncuklu Tarla, which is believed to be roughly 1,000 years older than Gobe
One of the papers, co-authored by University of California, Berkeley, paleontologist Kevin Padian, emeritus professor of integrative biology and emeritus curator in the UC Museum of Paleontology, answers some of the mysteries surrounding the flying
A new study reveals that at least 9500 years ago?"well before the copper working societies of the Middle East?"native American cultures emerged in the Great Lakes area, that, by 6700 BCE, were using copper to make tools and weapons.
"There's a narrative that depicts the Maya as people who engaged in unchecked agricultural development," said Andrew Scherer, an associate professor of anthropology at Brown University. "The narrative goes: The population grew too large, the agri
--desert in the most important discovery of the last 50 years
"The Jomon were not directly ancestral to Native Americans," lead author G. Richard Scott, professor of anthropology at the University of Reno, Nevada, and an expert in the study of human teeth, tells Live Science. "They [the Jomon] are more al
That time period was marked by dramatic climate change. In a reverse image of what is happening today, the Earth grew cooler, ice sheets expanded, sea levels dropped, forests started changing to grasslands, and carbon dioxide became scarce. Nearly tw
Italian sailors knew about North America 150 years BEFORE Christopher Columbus discovered the continent, researchers claim
The biblical "sin cities" of Sodom and Gomorrah could have been destroyed by a meteor "cloudburst" that incinerated all 8,000 inhabitants, a fascinating new study suggests.
HOLY MOSES Bible archaeologists 'find Mount Sinai where God handed Moses the Ten Commandments' as they reveal four bombshell clues
Some researchers have also published evidence of a much earlier human presence in North America, including stone tools dated to as long as 30,000 years ago. But others have questioned whether the discoveries were really tools shaped by humans, and wh
Gazing across the sea for days on end Polynesian navigators often didn't look for land, which was hundreds of miles away in any direction. Instead, they watched the stars, clouds, birds, waves and other features of the environment from their open c
The Woolly Mammoth could be coming back from extinction. Scientists have received more funding to resurrect this creature. Is this irresponsible? And should we do it?
EIGHT additional miles of Kentucky's Mammoth Cave are uncovered that extends the 10-million-year-old structure to at least 420 miles long
Stonehenge's famed megaliths haven't simply stood in a circular arrangement since prehistoric people first placed them there around 2500 B.C.E. The sarsen and bluestones have actually cracked or fallen over numerous times in modern history: At th
