17th-Century Skeleton of Scandinavian Girl Found with Bird Skull in Mouth: A Mysterious Burial in Poland When long-dead human remains are found buried in unusual circumstances, anthropologists are usually able to piece together why. But the bones of a child…
Exploring Possible Neandertal Hunting Tactics: The Chough Bird Strategy Juan Negro crouched in the shadows just outside a cave, wearing his headlamp. For a brief moment, he wasn’t an ornithologist at the Spanish National Research Council’s Doñana Biological Station in…
Ancient Ram Head Statues Discovered on Egypt’s Avenue of Sphinxes near Karnak Temple Three giant statues of ram heads — at least one of which had a cobra on top — have been discovered south of Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egyptologists announced. …
Amethyst Seal Discovery in Jerusalem Reveals Possible Biblical Persimmon from Second Temple Period Archaeologists working in the Old City of Jerusalem have discovered an ancient seal carved out of amethyst, which may show the biblical persimmon plant, one of the ingredients…
Homo Bodoensis: Newly Named Human Species and Potential Ancestor of Modern Humans Live Science reports that paleoanthropologist Mirjana Roksandic of the University of Winnipeg and her colleagues suggest renaming some human ancestors after examining fossils dating from 774,000 to 129,000…
Rare Roman Statues Discovered at Norman Church Ruins During HS2 Excavation in England Archaeologists in central England working on the HS2 project have uncovered a set of incredibly rare Roman statues whilst excavating a Norman Church in Stoke Mandeville. In the final…
Scientific Evidence Shows Humans Didn’t Evolve from a Single Pair 200,000 Years Ago Those headlines give the impression that science has produced evidence to support the story of Adam and Eve. But the study they rest on does not demonstrate anything…
Archaeologists Stunned by Discovery of 5,000-Year-Old ‘Scottish Pompeii’ Settlement Duncansby Head lighthouse marks the most northeasterly point of the British mainland. It’s almost 880 miles from Land’s End in the southwest of England. Just beyond here are the Orkney islands, over 70 of them,…
300-Million-Year-Old Fossil Discovery in Utah: Could It Be a New Species? A 300-million-year-old fossil discovered deep in Canyonlands National Park in Utah could belong to an entirely new species, reports Amy Joi O’Donoghue for the Deseret News. The fossilized critter is an…
Denver Museum to Return Looted Khmer Relics to Cambodia Amid U.S. Seizure Efforts Decades after they were hacked from temples and other historical sites, four ancient statues from the Denver Museum of Art are finally heading home. The museum has agreed to…
