Bird wings trapped in amber are a fossil first from the age of dinosaurs0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 30, 2016
Preserved feathers and tissue provide a picture of hatchlings from the Cretaceous.
Preserved feathers and tissue provide a picture of hatchlings from the Cretaceous.
A mysterious collection of nearly 100 manuscripts have been discovered in an Afghan Cave. An analysis of the texts revealed that they were owned by a Jewish family that lived along the ancient Silk Road about 1,000 years ago.
A new study of the 37,000-year old remains of the “Deep Skull” – the oldest modern human discovered in island South-East Asia – has revealed this ancient person was not related to Indigenous Australians, as had been originally thought.
An international team of paleontologists has discovered the oldest known examples of ‘fungus gardens’ within 25 million-year-old fossilized termite nests from southwestern Tanzania.
This ancient Antikythera mechanism apparently apparently came with writing that explained how to use it.
The grave of a woman with a bizarre, long-headed skull has been unearthed in Korea.
Recently, a group of students from University College London (UCL), in the United Kingdom, staged an archaeology experiment to learn how ancient peoples may have moved the stones of Stonehenge.
While the history books give us an idea of what life was like hundreds, thousands, and even millions of years ago, they certainly don’t know it all. Mysteries continue to be uncovered, offering us further glimpses at worlds long forgotten.
Scientists have just come up with an explanation for how one of the rarest structures on Earth came to be, and it’s got heads spinning.
A morsel of never-before-seen alien rock has been dug up in a limestone quarry in Sweden, where it had lain deeply buried for about 470 million years, scientists said Tuesday.