Ancient 520 million-year-old sea monster with 18 TENTACLES around its mouth discovered
Ancient 520 million-year-old sea monster with 18 TENTACLES around its mouth discovered The discovery of a fossil showing an ancient sea creature with 18 tentacles surrounding its mouth has helped to solve a modern-day mystery about the origins of a gelatinous carnivore called a comb jelly, a new study finds. The previously unknown “sea monster,” …
DNA of a female hunter-gatherer, buried 7,000 years ago in Indonesia, reveals population history of SE Asia
DNA of a female hunter-gatherer, buried 7,000 years ago in Indonesia, reveals population history of SE Asia A team of archaeological geneticists has reconstructed the genome of a female hunter-gatherer from the Indonesian archipelago, which sheds significant light on the population history of southeast Asia. This study reports the first known human genome from Leang …
Divers Just Found Four 2,200-Year-Old Roman Battering Rams Used During The Punic Wars
Divers Just Found Four 2,200-Year-Old Roman Battering Rams Used During The Punic Wars The First Punic War, fought between Ancient Rome and Carthage for supremacy over the western Mediterranean, began in 264 B.C. It was the most prolonged naval conflict in antiquity. For 23 years on the seas from Sicily to North Africa, warships clashed …
Mysterious stone balls made 5,500 years ago were discovered on the island’s ancient tomb
Mysterious stone balls made 5,500 years ago were discovered on the island’s ancient tomb Two polished stone balls shaped about 5,500 years ago — linked to a mysterious practice almost unique to Neolithic Britain — have been discovered in an ancient tomb on the island of Sanday, in the Orkney Islands north of mainland Scotland. …
Truly Heartbreaking: Osage Nation Decries Sale of Cave Containing Native American Art
“Truly Heartbreaking”: Osage Nation Decries Sale of Cave Containing Native American Art An anonymous bidder has purchased Picture Cave, a Missouri cave system filled with 1,000-year-old Native American artwork, for $2.2 million. Held by St. Louis–based Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers, the sale went forward despite the Osage Nation’s efforts to block it, reports Jim Salter …
Archaeologists were amazed by Peru’s ‘mind-blowing’ ancient solar calendar built into the desert
Archaeologists were amazed by Peru’s ‘mind-blowing’ ancient solar calendar built into the desert At 2,300 years old, the Chankillo observatory has been described as one of the oldest of its kind in the world — and the oldest in the Americas. It is a construction of 13 stone towers built atop a hill and was once used as …
Netherlands: They rebuild the face of the first Dutch Neanderthal
Netherlands: They rebuild the face of the first Dutch Neanderthal You can now gaze into the crinkly eyes of “Krijn,” a young Neanderthal man who had a tumour growing on his skull when he died up to 70,000 years ago. In 2001, an amateur palaeontologist found a piece of Krijn’s skull while sifting through sediments …
Anglo-Saxon Silver Brooch Recovered in England
Anglo-Saxon Silver Brooch Recovered in England A metal detectorist who found a rare early-medieval silver brooch has said it was his most “incredible” find ever. The Trewhiddle-style brooch found on farmland at Cheddar in Somerset features detailed interlace decorations with animals thought to be peacocks. Detectorist Iain Sansome said it was “incredible” to think the …
2,000-year-old Roman sewage system unearthed in southwestern Turkey
2,000-year-old Roman sewage system unearthed in southwestern Turkey The Anadolu Agency reports that a Roman-era sewerage system was discovered in southwestern Turkey’s ancient city of Tripolis by a team of researchers led by Bahadir Duman of Pamukkale University. The excavation uncovered a 2,000-year-old sewage system in southwestern Turkey. The Roman-era sewage system, 160 centimetres (5.2 …
Life-sized camel carvings in Northern Arabia date to the Neolithic period
Life-sized camel carvings in Northern Arabia date to the Neolithic period A parade of life-size stone camel carvings in northern Arabia dates back to the Stone Age, new research finds. The 21 camels and horse-like figures were found in 2018 in the province of Al-Jouf in the northwestern Saudi desert. Researchers first believed that the …