Study Offers Insight Into Metallurgy in Ancient China An analysis of a 2,300-year-old text and coins has helped researchers decipher ancient recipes for bronze, including two linguistically elusive ingredients. The Kao Gong Ji, the oldest known technical encyclopedia, was written around 300 BC and is part of a larger text called The Rites of Zhou. …

Freckled Woman with High Alcohol Tolerance Lived in Japan 3,800 Years Ago More than two decades after researchers discovered the 3,800-year-old remains of “Jomon woman” in Hokkaido, Japan, they’ve finally deciphered her genetic secrets. And it turns out, from that perspective, she looks very different from modern-day inhabitants of Japan. The woman, who was elderly …

Metal books found in Jordan cave could change the view of Biblical history The discovery of seventy ancient metal books in a cave in Jordan is said to have the possibility of unlocking some of the secrets of the earliest days of Christianity. The tiny books, their lead pages bound with wire, have left academics …

5000-Year-Old Water System Discovered In Western Iran Archaeologists in Iran made an unexpected discovery during excavations at the Farash ancient historical site at the Seimareh Dam reservoir – a 5,000-year-old water system. The research team is working hard to recover the water pipes, along with hundreds of other artefacts, before they are submerged by the …

Archaeologists Discover Missing Link in Human Evolution, in Israel Researchers working in Israel have identified a previously unknown type of ancient human that lived alongside our species more than 100,000 years ago. They believe the remains uncovered near the city of Ramla represent one of the “last survivors” of a very ancient human group. The …

U.S. Repatriates Looted Artifacts to Cambodia (This August story corrects the 6th paragraph to state that Douglas Latchford was a dual citizen of Thailand and the United Kingdom, not Thailand and the United States) The United States will return to Cambodia 30 looted antiquities, including bronze and stone statues of Buddhist and Hindu deities carved …

Holding hands for 5,000 years, a couple with mysterious jade rings and dagger Bronze Age burial near Lake Baikal intrigues archaeologists who have not yet revealed the contents of the leather pouch between man’s kneecaps. Experts speculate that this ancient couple is an elderly man and his wife or concubine, buried for eternity in a …

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 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 …