WA Aboriginal site near Rio Tinto mine more than 50,000 years old, a new study reveals
WA Aboriginal site near Rio Tinto mine more than 50,000 years old, a new study reveals An Aboriginal sacred place located 65 metres from a land bridge used by Rio Tinto to haul iron ore is at least 50,000 years old, with new research finding evidence of occupation during the height of the last ice …
Researchers Reconstruct Likenesses From 400-Year-Old Bones
Researchers Reconstruct Likenesses From 400-Year-Old Bones The bust of an elderly man and digital images of a young woman and a young man are the results of research conducted on human skulls found in an early medieval stronghold. The appearance of the former inhabitants of Upper Lusatia was recreated by anthropologists, archaeologists and visual artists. …
Silver coins unearthed in New England may be loot from one of the ‘greatest crimes in history’
Silver coins unearthed in New England may be loot from one of the ‘greatest crimes in history’ A handful of Arabian silver coins found in New England may be the last surviving relics of history’s most notorious act of piracy — and perhaps one of the most famous pirates who ever lived. Evidence suggests the …
Researchers stumbled upon a box of human bones that had been missing for 100 years
Researchers stumbled upon a box of human bones that had been missing for 100 years The long-lost bones of a Viking nobleman have been found in the archives of the Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, more than 50 years after the remains were mislabeled and vanished into museum storage. These artefacts came from the burial of a …
‘Folded’ iron sword found in a Roman soldier’s grave was part of a pagan ritual
‘Folded’ iron sword found in a Roman soldier’s grave was part of a pagan ritual An iron sword deliberately bent as part of a pagan ritual has been discovered in a Roman soldier’s grave in Greece, an archaeologist has revealed. The deformed or ‘folded’ sword was buried with an as yet unidentified soldier about 1,600 years ago …
Trilobite Fossil Reveals World’s Oldest Cannibalism, What Animal Is It?
Trilobite Fossil Reveals World’s Oldest Cannibalism, What Animal Is It? It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there. But before there were dogs — or even dinosaurs — there were trilobites brutally biting each other on the Cambrian seafloor. New research has revealed that these armoured predators didn’t only hunt smaller and weaker animals for food, but …
1,000 Years Ago, Patients Survived Brain Surgery, But They Had To Live With Huge Holes in Their Heads
1,000 Years Ago, Patients Survived Brain Surgery, But They Had To Live With Huge Holes in Their Heads Healers in Peru carried out cranial surgery more than a thousand years ago to treat a host of conditions – often successfully. Without the benefits of a sterile operating theatre, state-of-the-art surgical instruments, anaesthetic and pain medication, …
An Ancient Papyrus Reveals How The Great Pyramid of Giza Was Built
An Ancient Papyrus Reveals How The Great Pyramid of Giza Was Built Stones weighing up to fifteen tonnes were hauled down the Nile on wooden boats to a man-made port. For centuries it has been one of the world’s greatest enigmas: how did a primitive society with little technology build the Great Pyramid of Giza …
Mungo Man: 42,000-year-old Aboriginal remains to be reburied
Mungo Man: 42,000-year-old Aboriginal remains to be reburied The remains of 108 Aboriginal people who died about 42,000 years ago will be reburied in outback Australia, years after they were first dug up without permission. These include the remains of Mungo Man, which was famously discovered in 1974 and helped rewrite Australia’s history. The decision …
Early Bronze Age Ax Heads Discovered in England
Early Bronze Age Ax Heads Discovered in England Metal detectorists have made a “remarkable” discovery unearthing two Bronze Age axe heads on land owned by a farmer in Wiltshire. Kay Stevenson, from Winterbourne in South Gloucestershire, said the finds could be about 4,000 years old. “I knelt down and dug it up, then realised it …