Archaeologists found the “vampire burial” remains of a 10-year-old child with a stone inserted into his or her mouth at a 5th-century Italian cemetery. The discovery of a 10-year-old’s body at an ancient Roman site in Italy suggests measures were taken to prevent the child, possibly infected with malaria, from rising from the dead and ...
New insights into the evolution and eventual disappearance of Portus Pisanus, the lost harbor of Pisa, have been revealed. Although it has been described as one of Italy’s most influential seaports during the Middle Ages, little is known about the relationship between Portus Pisanus’s environment and its history. To understand the role those long-term coastal dynamics, sea-level rise, ...
You probably know Easter Island as “the place with the giant stone heads.” This remote island, 2,300 miles off the coast of Chile, has long been seen as mysterious — a place where Polynesian seafarers set up camp, built giant statues, and then destroyed their own society through in-fighting and over-exploitation of natural resources. However, ...
Cannons, hand grenades, and up to a thousand soldiers were on board the large Swedish warship when it exploded in the Baltic Sea 454 years ago. The ship, known as Mars, belonged to the Swedish navy and was one of Northern Europe’s largest and most feared naval vessels used in the Northern Seven Years’ War. ...
An international team of archaeologists has uncovered the earliest example of the equid bit wear in the Near East. The discovery provides the first evidence of the use of a bit (mouthpiece) to control an animal long before the appearance of the horse in the Near East. Evidence of the bridle bit was derived from ...
Researchers have pieced together the three-dimensional skull of an iconic toothed bird that represents a pivotal moment in the transition from dinosaurs to modern-day birds, the first bird beak. Ichthyornis dispar holds a key position in the evolutionary trail that leads from dinosaurian species to today’s avians. It lived nearly 100 million years ago in North ...
Around 30,000 years ago, realistic Ice Age art suddenly flourished in Europe. Extremely accurate depictions of bears, bison, horses, and lions decorate the walls of Ice Age archaeological sites such as Chauvet Cave in southern France. The ability to focus on detail, a common trait among people with autism, allowed realism to flourish in Ice ...
Parts of the Amazon rainforest previously thought to have been almost uninhabited were really home to thriving populations of up to a million people, new research shows. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that there were hundreds of villages in the rainforest away from major rivers, and they were home to different communities speaking varied languages who ...
New archaeological evidence indicates that Pharaoh Ramses II may not have been the Ramses the Great we all thought he was. The archaeological evidence is from an Egyptian excavation 200 miles east of the Libyan border. With these new findings, it has helped bust the formidable reputation of one of the country’s most famous pharaohs. ...
On a tiny Indonesian island, a large number of ancient cave paintings have been discovered. The island is called Kisar, which measures just 81 square kilometers, and was previously unexplored by archaeologists. Now, a team of researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have found a total of 28 rock art sites. The sites date ...
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