Amazingly Preserved Mummies in China Yield New Clues to Bronze Age Life
Amazingly Preserved Mummies in China Yield New Clues to Bronze Age Life According to a Gizmodo report, an international team of researchers has analyzed the genomes of some of the oldest of the naturally preserved mummies from northwest China’s Xiaohe cemetery, which is located in the desert sands of the Tarim Basin. The remains, which …
Evidence of Prehistoric Humans Found on the Falkland Islands
Evidence of Prehistoric Humans Found on the Falkland Islands The enigmatic, now-extinct Falkland Islands wolf had human visitors on the remote archipelago up to 1,070 years ago. The find suggests that Indigenous people could have originally brought the foxlike creatures, also known as the warrah, to the islands. Scientists have debated how the islands’ only …
Industrial-Sized Tannery Detected at Medieval Abbey in England
Industrial-Sized Tannery Detected at Medieval Abbey in England It is Britain’s biggest and most famous monastic ruin and one that conjures up bucolic images of peace, reflection and very little noise apart, perhaps, from the occasional waft of Gregorian chanting. In reality, archaeologists have revealed, Fountains Abbey near Ripon was as busy, noisy and industrialised as anywhere …
A private collector is returning a Mayan artefact to Guatemala
A private collector is returning a Mayan artefact to Guatemala A private collector has returned a Mayan artefact to Guatemala after it was initially slated for auction in 2019. The stone fragment depicts a bird headdress belonging to an ancient ruler of Piedras Negras, the capital of a Mayan kingdom that flourished between the 4th century …
Man finds ancient grave and remains while digging the foundation for the garage
Man finds ancient grave and remains while digging foundation for garage The Slovak Spectator reports that a man digging a foundation for a new garage in western Slovakia alerted the authorities when he discovered human remains. Further investigation revealed a grave containing the bones of two women. A man was digging the foundations for his …
Blackened mummy cake found intact 79 years after WWII air raid
Blackened mummy cake found intact 79 years after WWII air raid A cake baked 79 years ago has been found in the Old Town district of the city of Lübeck, which is located near the coast of northern Germany, according to a Live Science report. Though the charred delicacy hasn’t been edible for a very, …
Archaeologists Map Nearly 500 Mesoamerican Sites and See Distinct Design Patterns
Archaeologists Map Nearly 500 Mesoamerican Sites and See Distinct Design Patterns Gizmodo reports that lidar technology was used to create 3-D maps of some 30,000 square miles of Mexico, revealing more than 475 archaeological sites dating from 1400 B.C. to A.D. 1000. The 478 sites included in the new research were inhabited from around 1400 BCE …
Archaeologists in Iraq find ancient wine press, carvings
Archaeologists in Iraq find ancient wine press, carvings According to an AFP report, researchers working at the site of Khinis in northern Iraq uncovered stone-cut pits dated to the eighth century B.C. and the reign of the ᴀssyrian king Sennacherib. The stone bas-reliefs, showing kings praying to the gods, were cut into the walls of …
Wreck of US ship that hunted Nazi spies in the Arctic finally discovered
Wreck of US ship that hunted Nazi spies in the Arctic finally discovered Live Science reports that the wreckage of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear has been found in Canadian waters by the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and other researcher groups. The Bear has a storied history: It …
Humans did not cause woolly mammoths to go extinct, climate change did
Humans did not cause woolly mammoths to go extinct, climate change did According to a statement released by the University of Cambridge, humans did not cause the extinction of the woolly mammoths, even though they are known to have hunted mammoths for food and used the skeletons and hides for shelter, weapons, and artwork. For five …