Ancient Civilization News

Posted November 13, 2006:

• Recovering Pompeii

Posted November 1, 2006:

• Shedding Light On The Darkening Of Ancient Pompeii's Paintings

Posted October 4, 2006:

• Ancient Hair Dye Based On Nanotechnology

Posted October 1, 2006:

• Silver Anomalies Found In Jerusalem Pottery Hint At Wealth During Second Temple Period

Posted August 1, 2006:

• Radiocarbon Testing Challenges Understanding Of Ancient Hawaiian Architecture, Social Complexity

Posted July 20, 2006:

• Germans Set Up An Apartheid-like Society In Britain
• Neandertal Genome To Be Deciphered

Posted June 30, 2006:

• Etruscan Expert Announces Historic Discovery At Ancient Site

Posted May 26, 2006:

• Ancient Etruscans Unlikely Ancestors Of Modern Tuscans, Statistical Testing Reveals

Posted May 17, 2006:

• Ancient Tomb Sheds New Light On Egyptian Colonialism
• Coral Reef Reveals History Of Fickle Weather In The Central Pacific

Posted May 1, 2006:

• UCLA Egyptologists To Launch New E-encyclopedia

Posted April 30, 2006:

• A Site To Be Seen: Ancient Earthworks Electronically Rebuilt, To Become A Traveling Exhibit

Posted April 29, 2006:

• New Evidence Suggests The Need To Rewrite Bronze Age History

Posted April 11, 2006:

• Investigating Canals Across Time, From Space: Ur Takes A Step Back To See Ancient Networks

Posted April 3, 2006:

• New Discoveries Point To 'Cave Of John The Baptist' As Important Site In The Time Of Isaiah

Posted March 6, 2006:

• Archaeologists To Establish True Value Of Roman Silver Coins

Posted March 1, 2006:

• The Evolution Of Right- And Left-handedness

Posted February 26, 2006:

• Secrets Of The Deep May Hold Clue To Ancient Global Warming

Posted February 12, 2006:

• Find In Egypt Promises More 'Wonderful Things'

Posted February 2, 2006:

• Scientists See And Analyze 650-Million-Year-Old Fossils Inside Rocks In Three Dimensions

Posted February 1, 2006:

• Archaeologists Find Evidence Of Earliest African Slaves Brought To New World

Posted January 31, 2006:

• Archaeologists Uncover One Of Biggest Medieval Graveyards

Posted January 23, 2006:

• Typhoid Fever Led To The Fall Of Athens

Posted January 6, 2006:

• Researchers Discover Greek Temple In Albania Dating Back To 6th Century B.C.

Posted December 27, 2005:

• Dwarfs Commanded Respect In Ancient Egypt

Posted December 14, 2005:

• Ancient Humans Brought Bottle Gourds To The Americas From Asia

Posted October 14, 2005:

• Making Iron The Old-Fashioned Way Is A Tricky Business

Posted September 28, 2005:

• Long-sought Maya City -- Site Q -- found in Guatemala

Posted August 10, 2005:

• New Analysis Of Pottery Stirs Olmec Trade Controversy

Posted July 29, 2005:

• Ancient Tiberias Reveals More Of Its Beauty

Posted July 3, 2005:

• Ancient Greek Writings Inscribed In Stone, Digitized By Case Classicist

Posted June 8, 2005:

• Research To Investigate Links Between Ancient Greeks And Modern Science Fiction

Posted May 20, 2005:

• International Alliance To Unlock Secrets Of Egyptian Mummies

Posted May 9, 2005:

• Surf Not Up For Palaeozoic Creatures - New Model Reveals Ancient Sea Was A Giant Lake

Posted April 8, 2005:

• Engineers Help To Save And Reconstruct The Past

Posted April 3, 2005:

• King Tut Liked Red Wine

Posted March 29, 2005:

• Nuclear Analysis Reveals Secrets Of Inca Burial Site

Posted February 16, 2005:

• Chinese Used Diamonds To Polish Sapphire-rich Stone In 2500 BC

Posted January 26, 2005:

• Implications For The Archaeology Of Warfare In The Andes

Posted January 25, 2005:

• Penn Museum Begins Ground-breaking Project To Create Underground Image Of Pre-Inca City

Posted December 24, 2004:

• Penn Museum Archaeochemist And International Scholars Confirm 9,000-Year History Of Chinese Fermented Beverages

Posted December 13, 2004:

• McMaster Researchers Seek To Unlock The Mysteries Of Ancient Potters

Posted December 9, 2004:

• Sacrificial Burial Deepens Mystery At Teotihuacan, But Confirms The City's Militarism

Posted December 7, 2004:

• 9,000-year History Of Chinese Fermented Beverages Confirmed

Posted November 1, 2004:

• Field Museum 'Reuniting' Scattered Collections From Ancient Iraq Site

Posted October 25, 2004:

• Geophysics, GPS Technology Play Important Roles In Excavation Of Ancient Roman Fort
• Tracking Ancient Earth's Oxygen Levels Provides Backdrop For Evolution

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