June 24, 2016 Skeletons found in a shop near the Porto Ercolano at Pompeii. The find was recently announced by the Archaeological Superintendency of Pompeii. (Image credit: Soprintendenza Pompei) Although the impressive nature of Pompeii has been known for centuries, archaeologists are still excavating parts of it, and more of the city – as well […]
World famous Ottoman cartographer Piri Reis’ 500-year-old map, apart from accurately exploring the northern coast of Antarctica, provides mind-boggling information about 2000 important ports and cities of the Mediterranean Sea, the western coasts of Europe and North Africa and the eastern coast of South America. The Piri Reis map was compiled in 1513 and when […]
New fossil discoveries continue to push the known boundaries of human evolution An ancient species of human from China, thought to be long extinct, likely survived until at least the last Ice Age 14,000 years ago, new research finds. Since the timeframe of these so-called Red Deer Cave people, as well as Homo floresiensis (aka […]
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 […]
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