You never know what you’ll find at the bottom of the sea. A couple of divers in the ancient Israeli port of Caesarea brought up some items from the seabed last month, leading to the discovery of a treasure trove of bronze statues, coins and other artifacts that went down with a cargo ship 1,600 […]
New bioarchaeological evidence shows that Nubians and Egyptians integrated into a community, and even married, in ancient Sudan, according to new research from a Purdue University anthropologist. “There are not many archaeological sites that date to this time period, so we have not known what people were doing or what happened to these communities when […]
For many years, locals in Eastern Transbaikalia, a mountainous region to the east of Lake Baikal in Russia told stories about a certain petroglyphs that were hidden in the mountains. Archaeologists were aware of these tales, but could never confirm the rock art’s existence. It seemed the tales were nothing more than a myth. Now, […]
The monumental burial site at Yiğma Tepe, atop a hill by Pergamon, had to have been created to commemorate somebody vastly important. Prof. Felix Pirson thinks it was the Attalid rulers. DAI-Pergamongrabung – A. Weiser Monumental burial site had been known for 200 years but new evidence indicates it housed bodies of kingly importance […]
Cave diver inspects the skull of Naia, a 12,500-year-old teenage girl discovered in a submerged cave on the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. I mage credit: Daniel Riordan Araujo. The well-preserved, genetically intact skeleton of a teenage girl who lived about 13,000-12,000 years ago in what is now Mexico is helping resolve a long-standing question of […]
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