Scientists decipher purpose of mysterious astronomy tool made by ancient Greeks0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 13, 2016
Inscriptions on Antikythera Mechanism suggests it was mechanical computer used to track sun, moon
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French archaeologists unearth bones from 6,000-year-old massacre0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 11, 2016
Neolithic group found in silo appeared to have suffered violent deaths, with multiple injuries to legs, hands and skulls
First fossil footprints of saber-toothed cats are bigger than Bengal tiger paws0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 10, 2016
A famous fossil trove in Argentina recently gave up a new treasure: the first fossil footprints ever reported of the saber-toothed cat Smilodon.
Archaeologists Find First Ancient Oracle to Apollo in Athens0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 10, 2016
The well dates back 1800 years but the prophecy at the sanctuary was evidently much older, archaeologist says.
Monumental Ancient Naval Bases Discovered in Athens’ Piraeus Harbor0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 9, 2016
Massive fortifications and sunken ship-sheds thousands of years old were the base from which the Greek naval juggernaut overcame the Persians.
Ice-Age Nanotech Proves We’re Not the First Engineers on Earth0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- June 9, 2016
Something as delicate and intricate as nanotechnology couldn’t have been developed without first discovering the structure of atoms and inventing the microscope. But these are all recent advancements, leading us to wonder who in the seven skies built these microscopic ooparts some 300,000 years ago?
Peering at Great Pyramid: How high-tech scanners change archaeology0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 8, 2016
New technology can help archaeologists uncover new finds at old sites such as the pyramids at Giza, but it also can shift their perspective to look across civilizations.
Tiny jaw reveals dawn of the hobbit0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 8, 2016
The hobbit, shown in a reconstruction, may have had a long history on the Indonesian island of Flores.
Humans didn’t wait on melting ice to settle the Americas0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 7, 2016
For most of the last ice age, enormous glaciers covered western Canada. And yet people still managed to cross deep into the Americas from their settlements in western Alaska. How did they do it?
Original Stonehenge was dismantled in Wales and moved to Wiltshire, archaeologists believe0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 7, 2016
Stonehenge began life as an impressive Welsh tomb which was dismantled and shipped to Wiltshire, archaeologists now suspect.
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