Archaeology

300,000-Year-Old Hearth Found In Qesem Cave

It's believed that humans discovered fire over a million years ago but when it became something controlled and used for daily needs is unknown. Fire is central to the rise of human culture and a discovery by archeologists at Qesem Cave, a site near pr ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2014 - 5:00pm

Glastonbury- Britain's Oldest Glass Town

Glastonbury- Britain's Oldest Glass Town According to Wikipedia and many other online sources the origin of the name Glastonbury is unclear.  On the contrary, it could not be more clear. While idly thinking about a long-ago visit to Glastonbury Tor I ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 22 2014 - 11:24am

Irony And Humor In The Semantically Subversive Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire arose after the death of the Roman Emperor Constantine. To make the empire more manageable, it was split into eastern and western halves, with Rome as the seat of the west and Constantinople as the capitol of the east. Unlike Rome of t ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2014 - 11:51am

Columbus Got There First: Chicken Bones Tell True Story Of Pacific Migration

Did the Polynesians beat Columbus to South America? Not according to  archaeological evidence. The new tale of migration was uncovered by analysis of ancient DNA from...chicken bones. The ancient DNA has been used to study the origins and dispersal of anc ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2014 - 12:31am

Tempest Stela: World's Oldest Weather Report Could Change Ancient Timeline

The inscription on a 3,500-year-old stone may be one of the world's oldest weather reports- and it could cause us to revise our chronology of the ancient Middle East. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2014 - 9:49am

Before Neanderthals, Early Modern Humans Took Down A Giant Elephant In England

A new study suggests that early humans living thousands of years before Neanderthals, were able to work together in groups to hunt and slaughter animals as large as the prehistoric elephant. University of Southampton archaeologist Dr. Francis Wenban-Smith ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2014 - 12:46am

Valley Of The Kings: KV 40 Holds Tomb Of Royal Children

Who had the privilege to spend eternal life next to the pharaoh? Kids and other family members, much like today. If you can afford a tomb, that is. In the Egyptian Valley of the Kings, excavations by Egyptologists from the University of Basel have been wo ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 28 2014 - 3:21pm

The 'Spiral Nature' Of Richard III's Scoliosis

Shakespeare characterized Richard III as a hunchback because his personal and physical deformities were well known. Certainly some history is written by the winners, and he was a big loser in the War of the Roses, but now everyone can explore the true sha ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2014 - 8:27am

Anthropocene 1000 BC: Mother Nature Not To Blame For Flooding Along The Yellow River

Nature gets a bad rap, according to a new paper. For thousands of years, fickle weather has been blamed for tremendous suffering caused by massive flooding along the Yellow River, long known in China as the "River of Sorrow" and "Scourge of ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2014 - 12:51pm

This Bronze Age Siberian Skull Held A Fascinating Secret

In a marked cemetery northwest of Lake Baikal, a skeleton was found, buried ceremoniously with a nephrite disk and four arrowheads, one of which was broken and found in the eye socket. An arrow in the eye? That's no accident. After radiocarbon dating ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 22 2014 - 6:04pm