Science News

DNA from 2,000 year old skeleton may put Indo Europeans in East Asia

New Scientist

JUST suppose that Darwin's ideas were only a part of the story of evolution. Suppose that a process he never wrote about, and never even imagined, has been controlling the evolution of life throughout most of the Earth's history.

Time Magazine

JUST suppose that Darwin's ideas were only a part of the story of evolution. Suppose that a process he never wrote about, and never even imagined, has been controlling the evolution of life throughout most of the Earth's history.

AFP

A thousand year old stone sarcophagus discovered in southern Mexico could provide clues to the reason for decline of Mayan culture, the archaeologist responsible for the find has said.

Daily Star

Excavations on part of an ancient 2.7 kilometer long avenue of sphinxes that once linked temples in Luxor and Karnak should be completed in March, Egypt's antiquities chief said on Thursday. Archaeologists have so far uncovered 65 of the 1,350 sphinxes that lined a path between temples during the time of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, who reigned 3,350 years ago.

The Guardian

'We were scraping away in a corner of the burial chamber when we noticed something glinting in the lamplight'

National Geographic

A thousand year old temple complex (including a tomb with human sacrifice victims, shown in a digital illustration) has been found under the windswept dunes of northwestern Peru, archaeologists say.

Xinhua News Agency

The family tombs of an high ranking general of the Han Dynasty (202 B.C. 220 A.D.) was unearthed in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, providing evidence to China's military history, archaeologists said Friday.

BBC

The remains of an Iron Age settlement have been unearthed by archaeologists working along the route of a new £1.3m water pipeline in Kent.

Global Times

Unidentified tomb raiders hit more than 10 ancient tomb sites Monday in east Jiangsu Province, using bulldozers, and stealing most of the articles they unearthed, in an unprecedented sacking of the country's cultural relics, local archaeologists said.