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Castles in the Desert: Satellites Reveal Lost Cities of Libya
November 7, 2011 — Satellite imagery has uncovered new evidence of a lost civilization of the Sahara in Libya's south-western desert wastes that will help re-write the history of the country. The fall of Gaddafi has ... > full story -
Hospital Tests Reveal the Secrets of an Egyptian Mummy
November 2, 2011 — An ancient Egyptian mummy has had quite an afterlife, traveling more than 6,000 miles, spending six decades in private hands, and finally, in 1989, finding a home at the World Heritage Museum (now ... > full story -
Jawbone Found in England Is from the Earliest Known Modern Human in Northwestern Europe
November 2, 2011 — A piece of jawbone excavated from a prehistoric cave in England is the earliest evidence for modern humans in Europe, according to an international science team. New dating of the bone, which shows ... > full storyMore: -
Analysis Reveals Malaria, Other Diseases as Ancient, Adaptive and Persistent Foes
November 2, 2011 — One of the most comprehensive analyses yet done of the ancient history of insect-borne disease concludes for the first time that malaria is not only native to the New World, but it has been present ... > full story -
Computer Scientist Cracks Mysterious 'Copiale Cipher'
October 25, 2011 — More than three centuries after it was devised, the 75,000-character "Copiale Cipher" has finally been broken. The mysterious cryptogram, bound in gold and green brocade paper, reveals the rituals ... > full story -
Viking Buried With Axe, Sword and Spear Found With Fully Intact Viking Boat Burial in UK
October 23, 2011 — The UK mainland's first fully intact Viking boat burial site has been discovered by archaeologists working in the Scottish Highlands. The 5m-long grave contained the remains of a high status Viking, ... > full story -
First North American Hunters 1,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought, Speared Mastodon Fossil Shows
October 20, 2011 — A new and astonishing chapter has been added to North American prehistory in regards to the first hunters and their hunt for the now extinct giant mammoth-like creatures -- the mastodons. New ... > full storyMore: -
Face-to-Face With an Ancient Human
October 20, 2011 — A reconstruction based on the skull of Norway’s best-preserved Stone Age skeleton makes it possible to study the features of a boy who lived outside Stavanger 7,500 years ... > full story -
Ancient Depiction of Childbirth Discovered at Etruscan Site in Tuscany
October 20, 2011 — An archaeological excavation at Poggio Colla, the site of a 2,700-year-old Etruscan settlement in Italy's Mugello Valley, has turned up a surprising and unique find: two images of a woman giving ... > full story -
New Evidence for the Oldest Oxygen-Breathing Life on Land
October 19, 2011 — New research shows the first evidence that oxygen-breathing bacteria occupied and thrived on land 100 million years earlier than previously ... > full storyMore: -
Archaeologists Find Blade 'Production Lines' Existed as Much as 400,000 Years Ago
October 17, 2011 — Archaeologists report that large numbers of long, slender cutting tools were discovered at the Qesem Cave outside Tel Aviv. They report that every element of the system points to a sophisticated tool ... > full story -
Genetic Study of Cave Millipedes Reveals Isolated Populations and Ancient Divergence Between Species
October 17, 2011 — Cave millipedes of the genus Tetracion are found on the southern Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee and Alabama, USA. New genetic analyses show that their populations are generally isolated and ... > full story
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