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News Archive

Prehistoric Mummies Poisoned

April, 18 2010

National Geographic News

A naturally mummified Chinchorro child found in a Chilean desert. Arsenic laced water may have killed off coastal peoples in Chile.

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Java Man takes age to extremes

April, 18 2010

Science News

New age estimates for Homo erectus fossils on the Indonesian island of Java have physical anthropologists scratching their crania.

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More on Lead from a Roman ship to be used for hunting neutrinos

April, 18 2010

PhysOrg

Italy's National Institute of Nuclear Physics, at its laboratories in Gran Sasso, has received 120 lead bricks from an ancient Roman ship that sunk off of the coast of Sardinia 2,000 years ago.

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Preservationist: Recovered 160 year old plank road is the source of Saginaw

April, 18 2010

MLive

A longtime city preservationist called the unearthed 159 year old plank road revealed Thursday at the Castle Museum of Saginaw County History "the source of Saginaw."

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Priceless Roman sculpture excavated in Stobi

April, 18 2010

MINA

Priceless Roman sculpture excavated in Stobi A well preserved, priceless marble head of Octavius Augustus (part of a sculpture from the early Roman period) and a small torso were excavated Friday at Stobi archaeological site, which was visited by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski together with Culture Minister Elizabeta Kanceska Milevska and the director of the Department for Cultural Heritage Protection, Pasko Kuzman.

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Gunma whale fossil declared baleen offshoot

April, 18 2010

The Japan Times

A whale fossil unearthed from some 11 million year old stratum in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, in 2002 has been confirmed as a newly discovered group of the baleen whale species, the Gunma Museum of Natural History said Friday.

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Syrian Archaeologists: Tower Tombs Unearthed in Palmyra

April, 18 2010

Global Arab Network

Syrian Archaeologists: Tower Tombs Unearthed in Palmyra The Syrian Archaeological Expedition working at the site of Palmyra's northern defensive wall (Central Syria) has unearthed tower tombs close to the wall.

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Excavation at VIMS five years ago yields phenomenal discoveries

April, 18 2010

Daily Press

In 2005, field technicians Hope Smith and Amy Bulkholder were part of a team that excavated a site at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science One skeleton on the Virginia Institute of Marine Science campus was buried shallow, oriented east to west. The other nearby skeleton was buried a little deeper, oriented north to south.

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Remains in Southwell could be Roman temple

April, 18 2010

BBC

The scale of the walls uncovered indicate a high-status building Remains unearthed in Nottinghamshire could be an unknown Roman temple, archaeologists have claimed.

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French Guianan coastal savannas: a landscape shaped by humans and by nature

April, 16 2010

AlphaGalileo

The coastal savannas of French Guiana dotted with thousands of small mounds have given up some of their secrets, thanks to an interdisciplinary European collaborative research project, financed by two CNRS programs. The researchers discovered that these mounds are agricultural raised fields, vestiges of a pre Columbian agricultural system constructed over 900 years ago.

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