ancient archeology

Fossil Footprints Show a Dinosaur as Big as a T. Rex Once Terrorised Australia 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 22, 2020
Perhaps the most iconic dinosaur is Tyrannosaurus rex, a massive predator that lived in what is now North America.

By David Aragorn
Antarctica’s ‘deflated football’ fossil is world’s second-biggest egg 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 18, 2020
A mysterious 68-million-year-old fossil found on Seymour Island off Antarctica’s coast that looked like a deflated football has turned out to be a unique find – the second-largest egg on record and one that may have belonged to a huge marine reptile that lived alongside the dinosaurs.

By David Aragorn
48,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Unearthed in Sri Lanka 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 17, 2020
Archaeologists have found over a hundred bone arrow points at the Pleistocene cave site of Fa-Hien Lena in Sri Lanka. The artifacts were used to hunt tree-dwelling animals such as small monkeys and squirrels about 48,000 years ago and represent the earliest known bow-and-arrow technology outside of Africa.

By David Aragorn
Coal-burning in Siberia led to climate change 250 million years ago 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 17, 2020
A team of researchers led by Arizona State University (ASU) School of Earth and Space Exploration professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton has provided the first ever direct evidence that extensive coal burning in Siberia is a cause of the Permo-Triassic Extinction, the Earth’s most severe extinction event. The results of their study have been recently published in the journal Geology.

By David Aragorn
Archaeologists Find Roman Iron Age Board Game in Norway 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 10, 2020
Rare elongated dice and board game pieces from the Roman Iron Age have been discovered in western Norway.

By David Aragorn
Entire Roman city revealed without any digging 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 9, 2020
For the first time, archaeologists have succeeded in mapping a complete Roman city, Falerii Novi in Italy, using advanced ground penetrating radar (GPR), allowing them to reveal astonishing details while it remains deep underground. The technology could revolutionise our understanding of ancient settlements.

By David Aragorn
Ancient Pyramids in an Icy Landscape: Was There an Ancient Civilization in Antarctica?0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- June 9, 2020
In 2016 the World Wide Web was all abuzz with Google Earth images of Antarctica that appear to show pyramids in the icy landscape. The images show what appears to be three pyramids with four sides similar to the famous Giza pyramids in Egypt. Could these be authentic man-made pyramids created by an ancient civilization?

By David Aragorn
Face of a 7,500-year-old woman reveals Gibraltar’s earliest humans 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 6, 2020
Analysis of a Neolithic skull revealed not only how she looked but also where her people originated far across the Mediterranean.

By David Aragorn
Archaeologists Discover Largest and Oldest-Known Maya Monument 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 5, 2020
An international team of archaeologists has discovered an artificial structure — which is 1,400 m in length, 10-15 m in height, has 9 causeways radiating out from it, and is about 3,000 years old — at the archaeological site of Aguada Fénix in Tabasco, Mexico, near the northwestern border of Guatemala. This is the oldest monumental construction ever found in the Maya area and the largest in the entire pre-Hispanic history of the region.

By David Aragorn
These tube-shaped creatures may be the earliest known parasites 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 5, 2020
Animals that lived over 500 million years ago may have stolen food from their hosts’ mouths

By David Aragorn