Scientists Found 40 Tons Of Capstone From South India, Largest Capstone Ever Found

Medicine & Technology Mar 26, 2017

Telangana Archaeology and Museums Department scientists found the largest capstone from southern India. the weight of the capstone was about 40 tons and it took four hours to lift it up with a crane.

3000 Years Old Bronze Age Rare Spearhead Sword A 'Find Of A Lifetime'

Feb 19, 2017

a team of archaeologists named GUARD Archaeology found 3,000 years old spearhead gold sword from a construction site in Scotland. the spearhead sword was enveloped with leather and wooden sheath.

Ancient Sunken Town Being Investigated With 3D Technology

Dec 30, 2015

An international team of researchers have successfully investigated portions of the submerged ancient town of Lechaion.

Were Dinosaurs Warm Blooded Like Modern Animals?

May 30, 2015

For years the accepted theory was that dinosaurs were cold blooded, much like modern reptiles today. However, a study then showed that they were neither cold blooded or warm blooded like animals today. However, a paleontologist revisited that study focusing on the metabolism and growth of the dinosaurs. The re-analysis then provided evidence that dinosaurs were actually warm blooded like many of today's modern animals.

Archaeologists Track the Birth, Life, and Death of the 3,000-Year-Old Egtved Girl

May 23, 2015

She was dressed in a knee-length skirt and a short woolen blouse when she was buried in an earthen mound in southern Denmark. She was only a teenager when she died. Her small body was wrapped in a blanket and placed in an ox hide-lined coffin made of oak. Beside her, tucked within a small cloth sack, were the cremated remains of a six-year-old child. Now, over 3,000 years later, scientists are able to trace the young girl's journey across an ancient landscape.

Yale Traces the Origins of all Snakes

May 20, 2015

Researchers at Yale University recently delved into the evolutionary history of snakes, and what they discovered was an ancient creature who lived over 120 million years ago in the warm forests of the Southern Hemisphere. And most interesting of all, this creature sported tiny hindlimbs, replete with ankles and toes.

Egyptian Mummified Animals Contain Hidden Surprises

May 12, 2015

For over twenty years, scientists have used modern technology, in the form of CT scans and X-rays, to virtually unwrap mummified remains. These powerful tools, which allow researchers to peer inside mummies, provide information as to cause of death, burial treatment, and individual traits of the deceased. But now, this technology is being used to explore a new breed of Egyptian mummies: animals that were preserved to accompany the dead. And perhaps the greatest surprise is what's missing from these mummified treasures.

World's Oldest Stone Tools Discovered in Kenya

Apr 19, 2015

Archaeologists believe they have found the oldest stone tools ever recorded in Africa, and they weren't used by any human from the genus Homo. The tools, dating back 3.3 million years, are proof that some of the earliest ancestors of humans used tools several hundred thousand years before the rise of the genus Homo.

Yawunik Arthropod Revealed—The Toothsome Creature that Gave Rise to Lobsters, Spiders and Butterflies

Mar 29, 2015

When you watch butterflies flutter through the sky and lobsters waddle in the sea, you may not readily believe that the two far off species have anything in common. But along with spiders, butterflies and lobsters share quite an interesting collective history-one where an ancient ancestor may have emerged from the sea. Cover the ocean, the land and the skies above the radiation of species into many forms are believed to have originated with a common ancestor as long as 508 million years ago. And in a new study published this week in the journal Paleontology researchers are finally giving a face to ancestor known as Yawunik kootenayi.

Arabic Ring Found in 9th Century Scandinavian Grave

Mar 19, 2015

New study claims 9th century ring with Arabic Inscription found at a Scandinavian site is unique

Ancient Human Jaw Bone Evidence of Earlier Evolution

Mar 05, 2015

A fragment of a jawbone dating back 2.8 million years is evidence that humans evolved more than 400,000 years earlier than previously thought.

DNA Evidence of Wheat Upsets Archeological History of the Crop in Early England

Feb 27, 2015

When British researchers went diving in Bouldnor Cliff, a submarine archaeological site near the Isle of Wight in the UK, it would fit to assume that they hadn’t quite banked on finding evidence of wheat beneath the waters. But when the researcher analyzed a core sample obtained from sealed sediments, microfossils with sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) of wheat species revealed that there might be far more to the story of the cash crop and trade in ancient Britain—perhaps even 2,000 years more than what the current history predicts.

Reptile Preceding Dinosaurs Discovered

Jan 24, 2015

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of reptile after putting together the remains of a new crocodile-like species that lived long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

Ancient Man May Have Been More Tactile Than We Thought—Stone-Age Brains & Modern-Day Hands

Jan 23, 2015

Anthropologists now believe that some of the earliest human ancestors who lived 3.2 million years ago had hand structures much like our own and were able to grasp and use tools, even if they had not invented them yet.

Through Time and Stone--X-Rays Help Solve 2,000 year old mystery from Mt. Vesuvius

Jan 21, 2015

When Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, it destroyed several Roman towns including Pompeii and Herculaneum. With Herculaneum's destruction, hundreds of writings from the time were buried for what some believed could be all of eternity. However, scientists have now succeeded in reading parts of an ancient scroll buried by the eruption.