Archaeology

1.1 Billion-Year-Old Bright Pink Pigments Discovered

The oldest colors in the geological record have been discovered. At 1.1 billion-years-old, the bright pink pigments extracted from marine black shales of the Taoudeni Basin in Mauritania, West Africa, are actually molecular fossils of chlorophyll that were ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2018 - 9:05am

Hunter Gatherers Baked Their Own Bread 14,000 Years Ago- 4,000 Years Before Agriculture

Some 4,000 years before domesticated agriculture, hunter-gatherers baked their own bread, according to a discovery at an archaeological site in northeastern Jordan. Researchers have discovered the charred remains of a flatbread baked around 14,400 years ag ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2018 - 9:31am

3700 BC: Embalming Was Taking Place 1,500 Years Earlier Than Thought

A mummy dating from 3700-3500 B.C. housed in the Egyptian Museum in Turin since 1901 has never undergone any conservation treatments- and that provided a unique opportunity for some science. And the results were a surprise. It was assumed the Turin mummy h ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2018 - 9:05am

Where Did The Jewish People Come From? Ancient DNA Of Ashkenazic Jews Sheds Some Light

Where do the Jewish people come from? This is a question that anthropologists, historians and theologists have studied for millennia. According to mythology, the Judaeans descended from three patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who are buried in the Ca ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 5 2018 - 3:52pm

One Great Pyramids Mystery Solved

The Great Pyramids have long been held up as the pinnacle of ancient engineering. Over 100 structures, some as high as were constructed of huge alabaster blocks, many quarried from Hatnub- the site of an new interesting discovery. Given the challenges in b ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 8 2018 - 12:49pm

How My Research On Ancient Egyptian Poetry Led To An Amazing Great Pyramid Discovery

What began as an expedition to record the inscriptions of ancient Egyptian quarry workers produced a remarkable discovery about the Great Pyramid at Giza. My colleagues and I in the Anglo-French joint archaeological mission to the ancient quarry site of H ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 8 2018 - 2:00pm

15th Century Fishing Fashion: Thigh-High Leather Boots?

A new sewage treatment project in London discovered something in the mud of the Thames; the remains of a human, leg bones still covered by thigh-high leather boots. When you say thigh-high leather boots it sounds much sexier than fishing waders, which are ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 6 2018 - 1:02pm

Like Stonehenge? Brits May Have To Thank The French

By Charles Choi, Inside Science – New research suggests that megaliths-- monuments such as Stonehenge created from large rocks during the Stone and Copper Ages in Europe-- owe their origins to a mysterious culture from northwest France with advanced seafar ...

Article - Inside Science - Feb 19 2019 - 12:24pm

Ancestors Of Humans Recycled Flint Tools For These Very Specific Purposes

Ancestors of modern humans "recycled" broken flint tools 400,000 years ago in order to create small, sharp utensils with specific functions in the processing of animal products and plant materials. The results were found in digs at Qesem Cave, lo ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2019 - 11:06am

Ancient Archipelago: Haadala Gwaii-ai

A wreck with tales to tell at Naikoon in Haida Gwaii. The islands have gone by many names. To the people who call the islands home, Haida Gwaii means “island of the people,” it is a shortened version of an earlier name, Haadala Gwaii-ai, or “taken out of ...

Article - Heidi Henderson - Jul 16 2019 - 12:17pm