Cahal Pech was founded in the Early Middle Preclassic period and continued to thrive as a Maya city until at least the end of the Classic period, though there is ceramic evidence of a longer occupation. Recent excavations have suggested… Continue Reading
For you collectors of historical bottles, this is an amazing database of dating and understanding the history about a bottle that you dug up. http://www.sha.org/bottle/index.htm
Thelemites are going to love this. Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), in partnership with Google Earth, unveiled a new Google Earth layer displaying popular archaeological sites located throughout the United States and Canada http://www.archaeological.org/news/aianews/6871#sthash.mt6BOpJn.dpuf
The documentary film, “Sailing Canoe,” follows the efforts of people across Micronesia to re-learn the art of sailing canoes. It traces the connections of people from Guam and Rota to Yap and the outer islands of Micronesia that once were… Continue Reading
A ground-breaking new study on DNA recovered from a fossil of one of the earliest known Europeans – a man who lived 36,000 years ago in Kostenki, western Russia – has shown that the earliest European humans’ genetic ancestry survived… Continue Reading
Thanks to the find in Siberia, we can now begin to understand the brain of the Woolly Mammoth. http://www.livescience.com/48625-mummy-woolly-mammoth-brain-revealed.html
Archaeologists have just completed their sixth season of excavation at a large burial ground consisting of nearly 100 mounds. The site was constructed in the 1st millennium BC at Teliţa-Celic Dere in south-east Romania. The cemetery sits alongside a settlement,… Continue Reading
Three new mosaics have been unearthed during the Muzalar House excavations in the ancient city of Zeugma in Turkey’s southern province of Gaziantep. http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/new-mosaics-unearthed-in-ancient-city-of-zeugma.aspx?pageID=238&nID=73808&NewsCatID=375
Recently found skull of an ancient mammal that lived during the time of the dinosaurs. http://news.yahoo.com/weird-skull-madagascar-reveals-ancient-mammal-184845557.html
What’s at the British Museum, an exhibit on Witches and Wicked Bodies runs from September 2014 to January 2015. http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/witches_and_wicked_bodies.aspx