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Apollo Discovery Tells a New Story
September 20, 2010 — A rare bronze signet ring with the impression of the face of the Greek sun god, Apollo, has been discovered at Tel Dor, in northern ... > full story -
Experts Question Claim That Alexander the Great's Half-Brother Is Buried at Vergina
September 8, 2010 — Claims that a tomb at Vergina, Greece, the ancient burial place of the Macedonian royal family in the fourth century B.C., contains the body of King Philip III Arrhidaios, half-brother of Alexander ... > full story -
Human Activity May Have Boosted Shellfish Size, Archaeological Study Shows
August 31, 2010 — In a counter-intuitive finding, new research shows that a species of shellfish widely consumed in the Pacific over the past 3,000 years has actually increased in size, despite -- and possibly because ... > full story -
Secrets of a Vanished English Landscape: Geologists Examine 5,000-Year-Old 'Fossilized' Landscape
August 17, 2010 — A team of scientists in the UK has published new research on a fossilized landscape, providing insights into how an ancient environment ... > full story -
Stone Age Remains Are Britain's Earliest House
August 10, 2010 — Archaeologists working on Stone Age remains at a site in North Yorkshire say it contains Britain's earliest surviving house. Archaeologists have revealed that the home dates to at least 8,500 BC -- ... > full story -
Reading Zip Codes of 3,500-Year-Old Letters: Non-Destructive X-Ray Scanning of Archaeological Finds
August 5, 2010 — A researcher in Israel uses a hand-held device based on x-ray fluorescence, a device that can be found in many chemistry labs, to non-destructively ascertain the chemical composition of ancient ... > full story -
Extreme Archaeology: Divers Plumb the Mysteries of Sacred Maya Pools
July 22, 2010 — Steering clear of crocodiles and navigating around massive submerged trees, a team of divers began mapping some of the 25 freshwater pools of Cara Blanca, Belize, which were important to the ancient ... > full story -
Earliest Archaeological Evidence of Pet Tortoises Discovered
July 12, 2010 — An archaeologist has discovered a bone belonging to a late 19th-century tortoise from Stafford Castle, Staffordshire - believed to be the earliest archaeological evidence of a tortoise kept as a ... > full story -
Dig Discovers Ancient Britons Were Earliest North Europeans
July 7, 2010 — Archeologists have unearthed the earliest evidence of human occupation in Britain. Their findings demonstrate that ancient humans occupied Britain over 800,000 years ago, marking the first known ... > full story -
3,200-Year-Old Bronze Tablet Identified as Battle Chariot Linchpin
July 1, 2010 — A 3,200-year-old round bronze tablet with a carved face of a woman, found at the El-ahwat excavation site near Katzir in central Israel, is part of a linchpin that held the wheel of a battle chariot ... > full story -
Hunting Weapon 10,000 Years Old Found in Melting Ice Patch
June 29, 2010 — A researcher has discovered a 10,000-year-old atlatl dart that had melted out of an ice patch in the Rocky Mountains. Climate change has increased global temperatures and accelerated melting of ... > full story -
Ultimate Cold Case: Anthropologist 'Bones Up' on Site of Ancient Invasion
June 21, 2010 — Anthropologist Sandra Garvie-Lok can't tell exactly how the victim on her table died, but she has a good idea. Given the visible previous cranial trauma on the body, the events that took place around ... > full story
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