Construction in Rome Reveals Well-Preserved, 2,000-Year-Old Dog Statue
Construction in Rome Reveals Well-Preserved, 2,000-Year-Old Dog Statue Archaeologists in Rome recently unearthed an ancient terracotta statue with a dog’s head that was buried below an urban road. The statue, which is palm-size, shows a pointy-eared pup with long, wavy fur flowing over its head and neck. It appears to be wearing a collar dangling …
New Thoughts on Africa’s Bantu Expansion
New Thoughts on Africa’s Bantu Expansion The study used novel computational approaches and linguistic data from more than 400 Bantu languages to reconstruct the historic migration routes. The project was a collaboration between scientists from the Max Planck Insтιтute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and researchers at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. …
Temple Dedicated to the Sun God Unearthed in Egypt
Temple Dedicated to the Sun God Unearthed in Egypt Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a 4,500-year-old temple dedicated to the Egyptian sun god Ra at the site of Abu Ghurab, about 12 miles (20 kilometres) south of Cairo. The temple was built sometime during ancient Egypt’s fifth dynasty (circa 2465 B.C. to 2323 B.C.) …
9,000-Year-Old Underground Settlement With Megalithic Stone Circle, Discovered Beneath The Mediterranean Sea
9,000-Year-Old Underground Settlement With Megalithic Stone Circle, Discovered Beneath The Mediterranean Sea Not far off the coast of the village of Atlit in the Mediterranean Sea, near Haifa in Israel, lies the submerged ruins of the ancient Neolithic site of Atlit Yam. The prehistoric settlement, which dates back to the 7th millennium BC, has been …
10,000-Year-Old Rock Paintings Depict UFOs And Aliens
10,000-Year-Old Rock Paintings Depict UFOs And Aliens The State Department of Archaeology and Culture in Chhattisgarh, India, is seeking ᴀssistance from the Indian Space Research Organisation to research a set of ancient rock paintings found inside caves near the town of Charama in Kanker district, in the tribal Bastar region, according to a news report …
The 7,000-Year-Old Elongated Skull Mummies Of Chile
The 7,000-Year-Old Elongated Skull Mummies Of Chile The Chinchorro culture existed on the coast of present-day northern Chile and southern Peru as much as 9,000 years ago, and interestingly they purposefully mummified their ᴅᴇᴀᴅ. Mummification first arose about 7,000 years ago, making them 4,000 years older than the same practice carried out in Egypt. The …
Neolithic Watermelons May Have Been Valued for Their Seeds
Neolithic Watermelons May Have Been Valued for Their Seeds The oldest known seeds from a watermelon relative, dating back 6,000 years to the Neolithic period, were found during an archaeological dig in Libya. An investigation of these seeds led by biologist Susanne S. Renner at Washington University in St. Louis reveals some surprises about how …
HUNDREDS Of Megalithic Monuments Discovered Around Stonehenge
HUNDREDS Of Megalithic Monuments Discovered Around Stonehenge In a groundbreaking news release, archaeologists have revealed the results of a four-year-long project to map the hidden landscape beneath the surface of the Stonehenge environs, and what they found is nothing short of amazing. Through their high-tech devices, they could see a landscape teeming with burial mounds, …
9,000-Year-Old Stone Houses Found On Australian Island
9,000-Year-Old Stone Houses Found On Australian Island Archaeologists working on the Dampier Archipelago, just off the West Australian coast, have found evidence of stone houses dated to shortly after the last ice age, between 8,000 and 9,000 years ago – making them the oldest houses in Australia. The Dampier Archipelago is a group of 42 …
Maya rulers’ ashes turned into pelota balls – expert
Maya rulers’ ashes turned into pelota balls – expert Some Maya rulers may have been incinerated and their ashes mixed with rubber to make the balls used in the game of pelota, an archaeologist says. Burnt human remains uncovered at the ruins of a Maya city have led to a new theory about the death …