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 …

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 …

‘I don’t care’: text shows modern poetry began much earlier than believed New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that “stressed poetry,” the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was already in use in the 2nd Century CE, 300 years earlier than previously thought. In its shortest version, the anonymous …

Gigantic Hand of Hercules could be From the Tallest Marble Statue Ever Made One glance at the giant hand is enough to recognize it was once part of a true masterpiece created by ancient builders. The hand belonged most likely to a mᴀssive statue of Hercules himself. How and why the giant statue of Hercules …

Turkey: Statue of Roman Emperor Hadrian found in southwestern Aydin province The news was released today that an ancient statue of the famous Roman emperor Hadrian was found in the southwestern Aydin province of Turkey, where the ancient city Alabanda once stood. It has been dated to the 2nd century CE, some 1900 years ago. …

2,200 year-old mythological masks unearthed in Turkey’s Mugla Archaeologists in southwestern Turkey’s Muğla have recently uncovered 10 rock carvings of mythological masks in the ancient city of Stratonikeia. An excavation team, headed by professor Bilal Söğüt of Pamukkale University, continues year-round work at the ancient city, where artefacts from the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Anatolian beyliks …

Study Estimates Life Expectancy in Bronze Age Turkey is 35 to 40 Years Analysis of the remains of more than 40 people suggests that 35 to 40 years of age was the average life span in central Anatolia some 5,000 years ago, according to a Hurriyet Daily News report.  Archaeological excavations at the Küllüoba Mound, which dates …

A tall story! Famous artist Michelangelo was surprisingly SHORT, measuring just 5ft 3in As an artist, the legendary Michelangelo Buonarroti left behind some big shoes to fill. But in real life, the great painter’s shoes weren’t big at all — and neither was Michelangelo.  Italian researchers recently examined three shoes that were found in Michelangelo’s …

Scientists Reconstruct First-evolved Plant Roots Using 400-million-year-old Fossil A plant fossil from a geological formation in Scotland sheds light on the development of the earliest known form of roots. A team led by researchers at GMI – the Gregor Mendel Insтιтute of Molecular Plant Biology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Edinburgh, …