Source: The Harvard Gazette The purpose of Mesoamerican potbelly statues have been the subject of debate among anthropologists for decades: Are they depictions of the ruling elite? A way to honor dead ancestors? Or perhaps portrayals of women giving birth? As the various theories wound their way through academic circles, the surprising discovery four decades
It looks like a space alien, or maybe a very deformed clam. But really, it’s a re-creation of a 500-million-year-old life-form.
Divers swimming through Heracleion, an ancient Egyptian city that’s now under water, have discovered a trove of artifacts, including the remains of a temple, gold jewelry, coins and the missing piece of a ceremonial boat, according to Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities.
A “Game-Changing” 10,000-Year-Old Neolithic City Has Been Unearthed Near Jerusalem
It’s legal to sell mammoth ivory worth about $500 per pound, but it may allow poachers to hunt elephants and sell their ivory as mammoth ivory
In an evening lecture titled ‘Humans and Monkeys in Java 12,000 Years Ago’ hosted by the French Institute of Indonesia (IFI), Ingicco details an interesting finding from the Song Terus cave in Pacitan regency, East Java.
Exclusive: Thousands of years of history being unlocked in the Aegean isles which could provide groundbreaking knowledge of ancient civilisations
Scientists have identified the earliest known evidence of modern humans outside of the African continent.
Scientists are uncovering, thawing and resuscitating various life forms, some of which are older than modern human civilization, as glaciers recede.
Fossils expand the known distribution of the ancient practice beyond Europe and Central Asia
