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Dental exam shows Neanderthal man cooked and ate veggies

WASHINGTON: Neanderthals were not just meat-eaters, say researchers who believe the ancient near-human creatures cooked a variety of plant...

Mosaics found in SE Turkey lead to unearthing of ancient Roman city

The accidentally found mosaics led to the unearthing of the Roman-era city of Germenicia in the southeastern province of Kahramanmaraş. Wh...

Ancient Egyptian Priests' Names Preserved in Pottery

By Rossella Lorenzi Broken pieces of clay pottery have revealed the names of dozens of Egyptian priests who served at the temple of a cr...

Researchers: Ancient human remains found in Israel

by Daniel Estrin JERUSALEM – Israeli archaeologists said Monday they may have found the earliest evidence yet for the existence of modern m...

30,000-year-old girl's pinkie points to new early human species

(CNN) -- An overlooked female pinkie bone put in storage after it was discovered in a Siberian cave two years ago points to the existence...

Mummified Forest Found on Treeless Arctic Island

Mason Inman in San Francisco for National Geographic News An ancient mummified forest, complete with well-p...

Preserving Africa’s Ancient Manuscripts

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Hailemariam Dessalegn said that although Africa is the poorest continent economicall...

Bones found on island might be Amelia Earhart's

NORMAN, Okla. – The three bone fragments turned up on a deserted South Pacific island that lay along the course Amelia Earhart was follow...

Pythagoras, a math genius? Not by Babylonian standards

by Laura Allsop (CNN) -- Over 1,000 years before Pythagoras was calculating the length of a hypotenuse, sophisticated scribes in Mesopotam...

Forensics reunites French king and his head

By Maria Cheng LONDON—After nine months of tests, researchers in France have identified the head of France's King Henry IV, who was ass...

2,400-Year-Old Pot of Soup Found in Chinese Tomb

By Theunis Bates Wondering what to do with those slowly molding Thanksgiving leftovers festering at the back of your fridge? Well, if you ...

Gales unearth Roman-era statue on Israel's coast

(Reuters) - A Roman statue that had been buried for centuries has been unearthed by the winter gales that have raked Israel's coast. T...

The real-life Da Vinci Code: Historians discover tiny numbers and letters in the eyes of the Mona Lisa

Art historians are probing a real-life Da Vinci Code style mystery after discovering tiny numbers and letters painted into the eyes of the...

What’s inside? Sealed jar discovered at Qumran – site of Dead Sea Scrolls

An intact, sealed, jar has been discovered at Qumran, the site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in nearby caves. Read the rest here.

Was Medieval England more Merrie than thought?

LONDON (Reuters) – Maybe being a serf or a villein in the Middle Ages was not such a grim existence as it seems. Medieval England was not on...

Roman Museum Saved In Canterbury, Kent, UK

The fight to save the Roman Museum has been won thanks to public support and better marketing. Canterbury council sparked outrage last year...

'Vandals have hacked at the heart of Christianity': 2,000-year-old Holy Thorn Tree of Glastonbury is cut down

Luke Salked Standing proudly on the side of an English hill, its religious roots go back 2,000 years. But a single night of vandalism has ...

Egyptian Bones Could Help Solve Canine Conundrum

Scientists are still trying to explain how the gray wolf could evolve into over 400 breeds of dogs, ranging from the pug to the pinscher. ...

Heathen Buried in Iceland, 1,100 Years Post-Mortem

A burial took place in Reykjanesbaer municipality in southwest Iceland yesterday. The news wouldn’t have had any special significance if ...

2,300 year old temple discovered at Thmuis in Egypt – built by Ptolemy II Philadelphus

A temple built by Ptolemy II Philadelphus has been discovered at the ancient city of Thmuis (also known at Tell Timai) on the Nile Delta i...

Scientists Discover 'Koreaceratops': First Horned Dino From Korea

Triceratops has a new cousin -- one from a distant continent, that is. Scientists from South Korea , the United States and Japan just anno...

From Iran to Corinth – Pottery research shows Greek city engaged in long distance trade during medieval times

At the end of ancient times, Corinth, one of the most famous cities in the Greek world, lay partly in ruins. “The mid 6th century city fell...

2,300-Year-old Maya ruins destroyed for pastureland

Mexico City – An ancient Mayan residential complex some 2,300 years old was destroyed by heavy machinery in the southeastern Mexican stat...

Italy: Another building collapses at ancient Pompeii site

Another part of the world-famous ancient Roman city of Pompeii in southern Italy has collapsed, archaeological officials at the site told ...

Archaeologists: Roman and Byzantine Findings Unearthed in Southern Syria

Syria (Suwaida) - The Syrian archaeological mission working at al-Gharia village unearthed nine cemeteries and a number of findings from...

Crown Suggests Queen Arsinoë II Ruled Ancient Egypt as Female Pharaoh

ScienceDaily — A unique queen's crown with ancient symbols combined with a new method of studying status in Egyptian reliefs forms the...

Staggering Picasso trove turns up in France

By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press Jamey Keaten, Associated Press PARIS – A retired ...

More Proof That Vikings Were First to America

By Lisa Bend Pity poor Leif Ericsson. The Viking explorer may well have been the first European to reach the Americas, but it is a certain...

Ancient Lambayeque civilizations domesticated cats 3500 years ago

Recent finds at the Ventarrón archaeological site have revealed some of the oldest examples of ancient Peruvian domestication of animals. ...

2,000-year-old intact female skeleton with gray hair unearthed in Hubei

A 2,000-year-old intact skeleton of an elderly woman was unearthed from a tomb from the early Western Han dynasty at the construction site...

London's National Portrait Gallery Finds Relics of English King Richard II in Its Basement

LONDON.- An archivist at the National Portrait Gallery has found relics from the tomb of King Richard II while cataloguing the papers of ...

Ancient Egyptian temple submerged in sewage

An ancient Egyptian temple to the god Ptah in the village of Meet Rahina near Memphis, just south of Cairo, now sits submerged in sewage. ...

Boy, 3, uncovers $4M gold medieval relic

Forget the tricycle — your kid needs a metal detector. James Hyatt, then 3, fo...

Ancient Roman soldiers' bathhouse found in Jerusalem

By Shira Medding Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israeli archaeologists have discovered an ancient Roman bathhouse that was probably used by the soldie...

Burnt City woman's face reconstructed

Rome's National Museum of Oriental Art has displayed the reconstructed face of a female skeleton which was found in Iran's Burnt C...

Dozer Driver Makes Fossil Discovery of the Century

by Loren Grush An accidental discovery by a bulldozer driver has led to what may be the find of the century: an ice-age burial ground that...