Elephant tusks on ‘lost ship’ taken from the African forest elephant 500 years ago In West Africa researchers traced a hoard of more than 100 elephant tusks aboard a sunken ship that had been lost for nearly 500 years ago. Scientists...
Archaeologists stunned as 2,000-year-old skull bound by metal evidence of ancient surgery According to a museum, a 2,000-year-old Peruvian warrior’s skull was found to have been fused together with metal in one of the world’s oldest examples of advanced surgery. The...
Scan of Child Mummy Reveals Bandages and Pus-Filled Wound Scientists have discovered the first known example of a bandaged wound on a mummified body, which may provide more information about ancient medical practises. The finding was published in the International Journal of...
This 14,000-year-old puppy ate a huge woolly rhino for last meal Scientists studying the body of a perfectly preserved Ice Age puppy have made an unexpected discovery — a piece of what could be one of the last woolly rhinos inside its stomach....
Early farmers exploited beehive products at least 8,500 years ago According to archaeological evidence, humans have been exploiting honeybees for nearly 9,000 years. Traces of beeswax found on ancient pottery from Europe, the Near East and North Africa suggest the first...
Oldest ever evidence of HONEY is discovered in 3,500-year-old pottery shards A team of scientists led by the University of Bristol and including colleagues from Goethe University in Frankfurt found the first evidence for ancient honey hunting, which was locked inside pottery...
A mosaic made by the freed slave to thank God was found in the church excavation During the excavation of the 6th-century Church of the Holy Apostles in southern Hatay province, a mosaic made by a freed slave to thank God...
Mass graves with remains of 25 Crusaders slaughtered during a 13th-century war are found in Lebanon Archaeologists excavating near a Middle Eastern castle have unearthed two mass graves containing the grisly remains of Christian soldiers vanquished during the mediaeval Crusades — and...
Researchers reveal the 4,500-year-old network of funerary avenues in Arabian Peninsula Archaeologists from the University of Western Australia (UWA) have determined that the people who lived in ancient north-west Arabia built long-distance ‘funerary avenues’ — major pathways flanked by thousands of...
Sacrificed Llamas Found in Peru Were Likely a Gift From the Inca A team of researchers from Canada and Peru has found evidence of Inca people burying llamas alive as part of ritualistic ceremonies approximately 600 years ago. In their paper...
