For as much as modern society worships chocolate, cacao — the plant chocolate comes from — was believed to be even more divine to ancient Mayas. The Maya considered cacao beans to be a gift from the gods and even used them as currency because of their value. As such, cacao bean production was carefully ...
Egyptologists have recovered more than 18,000 inscribed potsherds in ancient Athribis — the remains of vessels and jars that served as writing material some 2,000 years ago. The potsherds, known as ostraca, document lists of names, purchases of food and everyday objects, and even writing from a school, including lines written by pupils as a ...
The age of the earliest human remains in East Africa widely recognized as representing our Homo sapiens species has long been uncertain. Now, the dating of a massive volcanic eruption in Ethiopia reveals they are much older than previously thought. The remains — known as Omo I — were found in Ethiopia in the late 1960s, ...
Archaeologists from the University of Western Australia have discovered people who lived in northwest Arabia in the Early to Middle Bronze Age built “funerary avenues” — long-distance ancient corridors linking oases and pastures, bordered by thousands of elaborate burial monuments. Dr. Matthew Dalton, from UWA’s School of Humanities, is the lead author of the findings ...
It’s not very commonplace to discover food items in ruins, and tombs that are in shape, even after several centuries. Such an incident took place in Xinjiang in China. Marc Aurel Stein, a noted British-Hungarian archeologist, came across a box of 1,300-year-old millet-based cookies that defied the ravages of time. It was in 1915 that ...
In the heart of Belize, lost in its jungle, lies a mysterious cave that when talked about seems to have come straight out of an Indiana Jones movie. Within the cave, there are artifacts as well as several sets of human remains, one of which is called the “Crystal Maiden.” The site is called Actun ...
The idea that the size of populations determines their ability to develop complex cultures has been a growing consensus among archaeologists and anthropologists. The logic behind this consensus seems to be sound; however, a new study says it is severely flawed. So using this model, the larger the population is, the higher the probability it ...
What if the superfood in Indigenous diets could save our politically and ecologically strained planet? The answer may lie in the success of an ancient civilization high in the Andes Mountains where not much grows. UC Berkeley archaeologists reconstructed the diets of ancient Andeans living around Lake Titicaca, which straddles Bolivia and Peru 12,500 feet ...
The members of the Middle Don expedition of IA RAS have found a unique plate with a depiction of winged Scythian gods surrounded by griffons during their examinations of the barrow cemetery Devitsa V in the Ostrogozhsky District of Voronezh Oblast. This is the first case of such a finding in the Scythian barrows on ...
Last summer, archaeologists from the University of Münster discovered a previously unknown sanctuary from the Roman era during excavation work in the ancient town of Doliche in southeastern Turkey. Over a period of nine weeks, the team — headed by Prof. Engelbert Winter and Prof. Michael Blömer from the Asia Minor Research Centre — uncovered ...
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