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Gold Scroll Discovered: Earliest Evidence Of Jewish Inhabitants In Austria
March 18, 2008 — Archaeologists have found an amulet inscribed with a Jewish prayer in a Roman child's grave dating back to the 3rd century CE at a burial ground in the Austrian town of Halbturn. The ... > full story -
Exploring A 'Lost' City Of The Mycenaeans
March 15, 2008 — Along an isolated, rocky stretch of Greek shoreline, researchers are unlocking the secrets of a partially submerged, "lost" harbor town believed to have been built by the ancient Mycenaeans nearly ... > full story -
Domestication Of The Donkey May Have Taken A Long Time
March 13, 2008 — Researchers have found evidence for the earliest transport use of the donkey and the early phases of donkey domestication, suggesting the process of domestication may have been slower and less linear ... > full story -
Evidence Of Ice Age Hunters: 28 Palaeolithic Handaxes Found In North Sea
March 12, 2008 — An amazing haul of 28 flint hand-axes, dated by archaeologists to be around 100,000 years-old, have been unearthed in gravel from a licensed marine aggregate dredging area 13km off Great Yarmouth. ... > full story -
Giant Fossil Bats Out Of Africa, 35 Million Years Old
March 5, 2008 — When most of us think of Ancient Egypt, visions of pyramids and mummies fill our imaginations. For a team of paleontologists interested in fossil mammals, the Fayum district of Egypt summons an even ... > full story -
Enormous Jurassic Sea Predator, Pliosaur, Discovered In Norway
February 29, 2008 — Archaeologists have discovered of one of the largest dinosaur-era marine reptiles ever found -- an enormous sea predator known as a pliosaur estimated to be almost 15 meters (50 feet) feet long. The ... > full story -
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What Caused Westward Expansion In The United States?
February 29, 2008 — Western Expansion during the nineteenth century helped determine geographic distribution and economic activity in the United States today. Using economic modeling to understand a historical event, ... > full story -
Centuries-old Maya Blue Mystery Finally Solved
February 28, 2008 — Anthropologists have discovered how the ancient Maya produced an unusual, widely studied blue pigment that was used in offerings, pottery, murals and other contexts across Mesoamerica from A.D. 300 ... > full story -
Vikings With Vanity: Vivid Colors, Flowing Silk, Fashionable Until Advent of Christianity
February 27, 2008 — Vivid colors, flowing silk ribbons and glittering bits of mirrors -- the Vikings dressed with considerably more panache than we previously thought. The men were especially vain, and the women dressed ... > full story -
Excavations In Iran Unravel Mystery Of 'Red Snake'
February 26, 2008 — New discoveries unearthed at an ancient frontier wall in Iran provide compelling evidence that the Persians matched the Romans for military might and engineering prowess. The 'Great Wall of Gorgan'in ... > full story -
Most Detailed Global Study Of Genetic Variation Completed
February 21, 2008 — Scientists have produced the largest and most detailed worldwide study of human genetic variation. Like astronomers who build ever-larger telescopes to peer deeper into space, population geneticists ... > full story -
Cleopatra's Cosmetics And Hammurabi's Heineken: Name Brands Far Predating Modern Capitalism
February 19, 2008 — A pioneering new study in Current Anthropology finds that branding, and our attachment to them, far predates modern capitalism, and indeed modern Western society. Labels on ancient containers, which ... > full story
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