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Riddle Of The Great Pyramids Of Giza: Professor Finds Some Building Blocks Were Concrete
December 9, 2006 — In partially solving a mystery that has baffled archeologists for centuries, a Drexel University professor has determined that the Great Pyramids of Giza were constructed with a combination of not ... > full story -
Ancient Climate Change May Portend Toasty Future
December 7, 2006 — Scientists, including Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, have found that the Earth's global warming, 55 million years ago, may have resulted from the climate's ... > full story -
Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Curse: Tablet To God Maglus Invokes Destruction Of Cloak-Pilferer
November 30, 2006 — An ancient curse aimed at a thief is one of a number of treasures to be unveiled to the public for the first time, following the largest archaeological excavation the city of Leicester has ever ... > full story -
World's Oldest Ritual Discovered -- Worshipped The Python 70,000 Years Ago
November 30, 2006 — A new archaeological find in Botswana by an archaeologist from the University from Oslo shows that our ancestors in Africa engaged in ritual practice 70,000 years ago -- 30,000 years earlier than ... > full story -
Mystery Of Ancient Astronomical Calculator Unveiled
November 29, 2006 — An international team has unravelled the secrets of a 2,000-year-old computer which could transform the way we think about the ancient ... > full story -
Biblical Latrine: Ancient Parasites Show That Cleanliness May Have Been Next To Sickliness
November 13, 2006 — Those who make a great show of being religiously pure often lead lives that are secretly very dirty -- or at least so it was in biblical times. Recent bioarchaeological findings at the ancient Dead ... > full story -
Recovering Pompeii
November 1, 2006 — Artists in ancient Pompeii painted the town red 2,000 years ago with a brilliant crimson pigment that dominated many of the doomed city's wall paintings. Now scientists from France and Italy are ... > full story -
Shedding Light On The Darkening Of Ancient Pompeii's Paintings
October 30, 2006 — Artists in ancient Pompeii painted the town red 2,000 years ago with a brilliant crimson pigment that dominated many of the doomed city's wall paintings. Now scientists in Europe report why those ... > full story -
Early Bronze Age Mortuary Complex Discovered In Syria
October 25, 2006 — An ancient, untouched Syrian tomb that wowed the archaeological world on its discovery by Johns Hopkins University researchers nearly six years ago is not alone. Additional excavations have yielded a ... > full story -
Ancient Hair Dye Based On Nanotechnology
October 4, 2006 — A hair dye developed 2,000 years ago relied on nanotechnology to change the graying hair of people in ancient Greece and Rome into a youthful black color, scientists in France ... > full story
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