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Scientists See And Analyze 650-Million-Year-Old Fossils Inside Rocks In Three Dimensions
February 2, 2006 — UCLA paleobiologist J. William Schopf and colleagues have produced 3-D images of ancient fossils -- 650 million to 850 million years old -- preserved in rocks, an achievement that has never been done ... > full story -
Archaeologists Find Evidence Of Earliest African Slaves Brought To New World
February 1, 2006 — In the early European histories of the New World, there are numerous accounts of African slaves accompanying explorers and colonists. Now, digging in a colonial era graveyard in one of the oldest ... > full story -
Archaeologists Uncover One Of Biggest Medieval Graveyards
January 31, 2006 — University of Leicester archaeologists are beginning work on examining the largest discovery of medieval skeletons -- numbering 1,300 -- to be found outside London. The burials are from the graveyard ... > full story -
Typhoid Fever Led To The Fall Of Athens
January 23, 2006 — Scientists have for many years debated the cause of the Plague of Athens. Analysis carried out by Manolis Papagrigorakis and colleagues using DNA collected from teeth from an ancient Greek burial pit ... > full story -
Researchers Discover Greek Temple In Albania Dating Back To 6th Century B.C.
January 6, 2006 — Researchers from the University of Cincinnati’s Classics faculty are preparing to make their first public presentation of details surrounding their find of one of the earliest Greek temples in ... > full story -
Dwarfs Commanded Respect In Ancient Egypt
December 27, 2005 — An article published in the January 2006 issue of the American Journal of Medical Genetics examines the remains and depiction of dwarfs in ancient Egypt, concluding that they were assimilated into ... > full story -
Ancient Humans Brought Bottle Gourds To The Americas From Asia
December 14, 2005 — Thick-skinned bottle gourds widely used as containers by prehistoric peoples were likely brought to the Americas some 10,000 years ago by individuals who arrived from Asia, according to a new genetic ... > full story -
Making Iron The Old-Fashioned Way Is A Tricky Business
October 11, 2005 — It's one thing to imagine how an ancient technology worked and quite another to actually get your hands dirty trying it. That's the whole idea behind "experimental archaeology" and the experiments ... > full story -
Long-Sought Maya City -- Site Q -- Found in Guatemala
September 28, 2005 — A team of scientists including Marcello Canuto, assistant professor of anthropology at Yale, has found incontrovertible proof of Site Q, a long-speculated Mayan city, during a mission to the ... > full story -
Researchers Discover Ancient Origins Of Tuberculosis-Causing Bacteria
August 19, 2005 — In the new open access journal PLoS Pathogens, researchers report that M. tuberculosis and related strains recently emerged from a much more ancient bacterial ... > full story
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