Analysis of ancient cadavers recovered at a famous archaeological site confirm the existence of a sophisticated culture of butchering and carving human remains, according to a team of scientists from the Natural History Museum, University College London, and a number… Continue Reading
Evidence for ritual and possible astronomical practices during the Mesolithic period, 9000 years ago, has been uncovered in Bolków by lake Świdwie, Western Pomerania, by archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology in Szczecin, Poland. http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2014/mesolithic-sanctuary-reveals-constellation-riddle
Dozens of tombs filled with up to 40 mummies each have been discovered around a 1,200-year-old ceremonial site in Peru’s Cotahuasi Valley. So far, the archaeologists have excavated seven tombs containing at least 171 mummies from the site, now called… Continue Reading
A study in Royal Society Open Science says that so called ‘Neanderthal bone flutes’ are no more than the damaged bones of cave bear cubs left by scavengers during the Ice Age. The paper suggests that the ‘flutes’, which are… Continue Reading
In a thousand year old home at the Rising Whale Site in Alaska, bronze and obsidian artifacts may suggest that Asia and Alaska were trading. For more at – http://www.livescience.com/50506-artifacts-reveal-pre-columbus-trade.html
Neanderthals from the French region of Poitou-Charentes cut, beat and fractured the bones of their recently deceased companions, as revealed by the fossil remains of two adults and a child found at the Marillac site. These manipulations have been observed… Continue Reading
Although the ancient Romans were the first people to have had a fire brigade, they did not have a police force (apart from a night-watch). Thus, victims of minor crimes such as petty theft had to fend for themselves and… Continue Reading
Buried for millennia in the rear of a rock-shelter in the Lapedo Valley 85 miles north of Lisbon, Portugal, archaeologists uncovered the bones of a four-year-old child, comprising the first complete Palaeolithic skeleton ever dug in Iberia. But the significance… Continue Reading
There’s more than meets the eye in artist Rembrandt van Rijn’s famous 17th-century painting, “Susanna and the Elders,” according to a new study. To learn more about how the Dutch painter created his masterpiece, art historians and researchers recently compared… Continue Reading
A gentleman in Italy wanted to open a restaurant but he had toilet trouble. So he digs out the line and finds some amazing archaeological artifacts. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/world/europe/centuries-of-italian-history-are-unearthed-in-quest-to-fix-toilet.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000&_r=1