Limestone Wall In Bolivia Has Over 10,000 Dinosaur Footprints Belonging To 10 Different Species
Limestone Wall In Bolivia Has Over 10,000 Dinosaur Footprints Belonging To 10 Different Species Cal Orcko is a small town that is situated three miles south of the city of Sucre in Bolivia. It is home to the largest and most spectacular collection of dinosaur footprints of the Cretaceous era. Even though the site remained …
Was There Another Civilization On Earth Before Humans?
Was There Another Civilization On Earth Before Humans? It only took five minutes for Gavin Schmidt to out-speculate me. Schmidt is the director of NASA’s Goddard Insтιтute for Space Studies (a.k.a. GISS) a world-class climate-science facility. One day last year, I came to GISS with a far-out proposal. In my work as an astrophysicist, I’d …
Rare 18th-Century Warship Rudder Found in the Solent
Rare 18th-Century Warship Rudder Found in the Solent The lost rudder of a warship that sank in the Solent in 1758 has been discovered on the seabed, 60m (200ft) away from the main shipwreck. HMS Invincible – built by the French in 1744 and captured by the British in 1747 – is regarded as one …
The 6500-Year-Old Grave of the Unfortunate Ladies of Téviec
The 6500-Year-Old Grave of the Unfortunate Ladies of Téviec Téviec would be a rather anonymous island located somewhere in Brittany, France, if it wasn’t for its great archaeological value thanks to the many finds – mainly from the Mesolithic Period – that have been excavated there. These finds include the skeletons of two women, dated …
Researchers Track Changes in Size of Europe’s Dogs
Researchers Track Changes in Size of Europe’s Dogs European dogs doubled in size from 8000 to 2000 years ago, a new study suggests. The beefing up may have helped our canine pals protect sheep from bears and even their direct ancestor—the gray wolf. It’s “important” research, says Robert Losey, an archaeologist at the University of …
Unusually Arranged Skeletons And Artifacts Found Inside A 1,500-Year-Old Tomb In Berenice Troglodytica, Egypt
Unusually Arranged Skeletons And Artifacts Found Inside A 1,500-Year-Old Tomb In Berenice Troglodytica, Egypt Archaeologists excavating in the city of Berenice Troglodytica, an ancient seaport of Egypt on the western shore of the Red Sea, have found a 1,500-year monumental tomb that contains unusually arranged skeletons. The grave is also filled with many beautiful artefacts. …
3,400-year-old ‘lost’ city re-emerges from Tigris River in Iraq
3,400-year-old ‘lost’ city re-emerges from Tigris River in Iraq The тιԍнтening grip of climate change on our planet is revealing secrets buried for millennia. As waters and ice recede under warming conditions, the traces of people and civilizations long gone from the mortal realm emerge. In recent months, Iraq has been hit particularly hard, battered …
First Australians ate giant eggs of huge flightless birds, ancient proteins confirm
First Australians ate giant eggs of huge flightless birds, ancient proteins confirm Proteins extracted from fragments of prehistoric eggshells found in the Australian sands confirm that the continent’s earliest humans consumed the eggs of a two-metre tall bird that disappeared into extinction over 47,000 years ago. Burn marks discovered on scraps of ancient shell several …
Volunteer delighted to uncover very rude Ancient Roman graffiti at Vindolanda
Volunteer delighted to uncover very rude Ancient Roman graffiti at Vindolanda You see them scrawled on school desks, toilet walls and underpᴀsses across the UK. However, it seems that the tradition of drawing the male appendage as graffiti goes back far further than any of us would have realised – after a volunteer uncovered graffiti …
Remains at Bronze Age Funeral Pyre in Italy Analyzed
Remains at Bronze Age Funeral Pyre in Italy Analyzed A team of anthropologists studying Salorno, a stretch of scorched earth in northern Italy, say the site is a Late Bronze Age cremation platform where the remains of at least 172 individuals may have been burned. What’s more, the researchers believe the remains were simply left …