Scientists say they’ve found artifacts in Idaho that indicate people were living there around 16,000 years ago, providing new evidence that the first Americans arrived here by following the Pacific Coast. The discovery also points to Japan as a possible origin or influence for the migration, said study leader Loren Davis of Oregon State …
Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed what is believed to be the largest single mass child sacrifice in history. The bodies of 227 victims, aged between five and 14, were found near the coastal town of Huanchaco, north of Peru’s capital Lima. The children were believed to have been sacrificed over …
Human remains found in Croatia with signs of artificial cranial deformation provide the earliest genetic evidence of the presence of people from East Asia in Europe. The pit contained three sets of human bones, as well as animal skeletons and broken pottery. Workers at a private company found the pit …
By linking an ancient text, environmental analysis and ruins, archaeologists have documented a brutal attack. On May 21, 697, according to Mayan hieroglyphs, the city of Bahlam Jol “burned for the second time.” But, like much of Mayan writing and history, the record remained mysterious to modern Maya researchers. Where …
Marine archaeologists probing sunken ancient Egyptian settlements have discovered the remains of a temple and several boats containing treasures like coins and jewelry. Egyptian and European researchers spent two months probing the remains of Heracleion and Canopus off the coast of the Nile Delta, Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities reported. They used …
Anyone and everyone The sacred cenote, a sink hole in the limestone of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico, pictured above, looks beautiful. But it holds a dark secret. Between about 600 and 900ad the Mayan inhabitants of the nearby city of Chichén Itzá, believing it to be a gateway to the …
Some associate him with a real-life Asterix, though less successful in resisting the Romans. A HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, WEST SUSSEX, England. That’s where the Late Iron Age warrior appeared in 2007. It’s the kind of place that most of them show up these days, what with the digging and all. When he …
Archaeologists have uncovered dozens of musket balls and the remains of amputated human limbs — which were probably sawed off without anesthesia — at the field hospital that serviced the British forces and their allies at the Battle of Waterloo, a fierce campaign that ended Napoleon Bonaparte’s military career just over 200 …
RAHAT, Israel (Reuters) – Archaeologists in Israel have discovered the remains of one of the world’s oldest rural mosques, built around the time Islam arrived in the holy land, they said on Thursday. The Israel Antiquities Authority estimates that the mosque, uncovered ahead of new construction in the Bedouin town …
MOSCOW (Reuters) – More than 200 years after he died of his battlefield wounds in Russia, archaeologists believe they have found the remains of one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s favorite generals buried in a park beneath the foundations of a dance floor. Archaeologists take part in excavation works after they discovered …
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The ancient Philistines, the Biblical villains whose origins have puzzled scholars for decades, came to the Middle East from southern Europe more than 3,000 years ago, new DNA testing has shown. FILE PHOTO: An American archaeology student unearths a skeleton during excavation works at the first-ever Philistine …
NAPLES — In one of the quietest parts of a national library, down narrow hallways and through keyhole doorways, a nondescript set of cabinets holds one of the oldest written collections in Western civilization. There is one problem: The scrolls are illegible. They look a lot like incinerated firewood. They were …