Archaeologists from the Oriental Institute have discovered a lost ancient kingdom dating from 1400 B.C. to 600 B.C., which may have defeated Phrygia, the kingdom ruled by King Midas, in battle. University of Chicago scholars and students were surveying a site with Turkish and British colleagues last summer in southern Turkey called Türkmen-Karahöyük, when a ...
A new species of feathered dinosaur has been discovered in China and described by American and Chinese authors in the journal The Anatomical Record. The one-of-a-kind specimen offers a window into what the Earth was like 120 million years ago. The fossil preserves feathers and bones that provide new information about how dinosaurs grew and ...
Eagle talons are regarded as the first elements used to make jewelry by Neanderthals, a practice that spread around Southern Europe from about 120,000 to 40,000 B.C. Now, for the first time, researchers have found evidence of the ornamental use of eagle talons in the Iberian Peninsula. An article published on the cover of the ...
The mortuary house in question measured five by three meters. It had corner posts, and the walls were made of standing planks, in a building style similar to that used in early stave churches. Archaeologists could see that the building was solidly constructed, even though the only thing that remains is a rectangular ditch with ...
Some 9,000 years ago, residents of a large farming community were also among the first humans to experience some of the perils of modern urban living. Scientists studying the ancient ruins of Çatalhöyük, in modern Turkey, found that its inhabitants — 3,500 to 8,000 people at its peak — experienced such modern urban problems as ...
Researchers have found evidence that an unremarkable prehistoric burial mound near Bordeaux, in southwest France, was re-used by locals for around 2,000 years. The researchers say what drew people to the burial mound for 2 millennia remains a mystery. The Le Tumulus des Sables site was discovered by chance in 2006 when school children stumbled ...
The first humans who settled in Scandinavia more than 10,000 years ago left their DNA behind in ancient chewing gums, which are masticated lumps made from birch bark pitch. This is shown in a new study conducted at Stockholm University and published in Communications Biology. There are few human bones of this age, close to ...
Which came first, the pigs or the pioneers? In Barbados, that has been a historical mystery ever since the first English colonists arrived on the island in 1627 to encounter what they thought was a herd of wild European pigs. A recent discovery by an SFU archaeologist is shedding new light on the matter. Christina ...
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a small country in Southeastern Europe that saw massive internal conflicts in the 1990s. Over the past decade, citizens of the country have found a common source of national pride — a series of peaks shaped like pyramids. Some say that the pyramids are older than those in Egypt. Bosnian pyramids ...
Writing is one of the greatest inventions of humankind and is the foundation of progress. With this invention, human beings gained the ability to record and transmit information to future generations. This has made civilization possible. As to the question of who first developed a writing system, the Tărtăria tablets found in Romania may give ...
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