Browsing: ancient
Cylinder seal and its design engraved in clay Franck Raux © 2001 GrandPalaisRmn (Louvre Museum) The origins of the world’s oldest known writing system may be…
Archaeologists have unearthed a rare dagger dating back to the Copper Age in the Tina Giama cave in Trieste, a decentralized region in Italy’s Friuli-Venezia Giulia…
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of Jurassic cockroach. alderblattina simsibased on an isolated wing discovered in Gloucestershire, England. alderblattina simsi:(A) Dried specimen. (B)…
Armenian archaeologists have discovered the remains of an early Christian church in the ruins of the ancient city of Artaxata. Preliminary reconstruction of the early Christian…
Archaeologists from the University of Granada have announced the discovery of the remains of an ancient Roman forum in Ubrique, Spain’s Andalusia region. Ruins of Ubrique,…
named Arasemenia triaa new specimen from the Wutong Formation in China's Anhui Province, dates to the Famennian period of the Late Devonian, making it the second…
Carbonate minerals are an integral part of the carbon and water cycles, both of which are implicated in habitability, making them of particular interest in paleoenvironmental…
Researchers from the University of Tokyo and others have discovered pockets of living microorganisms in mineral-filled veins in 2 billion-year-old rocks taken from South Africa’s Bushveld…
Living Coelacanth Latimeria Coelacanths are iconic “living fossils,” one of the most conservative groups of vertebrates. Now, paleontologists have described a new species of primitive coelacanth…
Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is one of the most isolated inhabited places in the world. Its archaeological record, including megalithic statues, has captured…
The famous Moai statues of Easter Island Tero Hakala/Shutterstock DNA analysis of ancient ruins on Easter Island has revealed that the population was actually growing when…
The jawbone of a Neanderthal known as Thorin, thought to have belonged to an isolated groupXavier Mus Genetic analysis of Neanderthal fossils found in France has…
Palaeontologists from the University of New South Wales have unearthed the fossils of three new species belonging to the thylacine genus. Basitinus, Nimbakinusand Ngamalasinas It inhabits…
Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus) is a species of flightless parrot endemic to New Zealand. Kakapo (Strigops habroptilusImage courtesy of Jake Osborne. “Our research has prompted us to…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have discovered a merging pair of gas-rich galaxies that existed 12.8 billion years ago…
Archaeologists say Genovesa Cave Discovered in Mallorca, the main Balearic island and the Mediterranean's sixth largest, the find suggests that humans settled in the western Mediterranean…
Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have discovered a stone seal from the First Temple period near the southern wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem,…
The impact of intergroup conflict on demographics has long been debated, especially in prehistoric and non-state societies. In their study, scientists from the Complexity Science Hub,…
Multiple studies have demonstrated that European colonization of the Americas caused the extinction of most mitochondrial lineages of North American dogs between 1492 and present, and…
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of metriorhynchid crocodyloform from the Stadthagen Formation in northwestern Germany. Artist image Enarioetes schroederi. Image credit: Joschua Knüppe.…
In a new study, paleontologists used synchrotron X-ray tomography of annual growth in dental cementum from fossil mammals belonging to three Jurassic animal groups to elucidate…
Two recently discovered small hominin species, Homo floresiensis and Homo luzonensisraises the question of why such extreme body size reduction occurred in extinct human species in…
Pakdipthes hakataramea Body size would have been similar to that of modern humans Little Blue Penguin (Eudyptula minor)It is approximately 40-45 cm (15.7-17.7 in) in length.…
A recent study published in July suggests that Egypt’s oldest pyramid, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, may have been constructed using advanced technology. The study proposes…
Permafrost is ground that is always frozen, and the possibility of life existing there is believed to be low. However, in recent years, Scientists have discovered…
The leopard-spot-like features in the center of the image may be a sign of ancient life.NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a rock speckled with what…
Cruxatodon kiltlingtonensisA small mammal from the Jurassic periodMaiya Carrara During the Middle Jurassic, small mammals lived much longer than modern ones and received parental care for…
Argentine archaeologists analyzed 21,000-year-old fossil remains bearing cut marks belonging to a specimen of the extinct glyptodon. NeosclerocalyptusThe discovery, made in the northeast of the Pampean…
Amoebidium appalachenseViruses in protists closely related to animals weave remnants of ancient giant viruses into their genetic code, according to a new study led by Queen…
Scientists from Baylor College of Medicine and other institutions have announced the discovery of ancient chromosome subfossils in a female mammoth fossil.Mammutus primigeniusThe mammoth, a species…
In a new study, planetary scientists have found strong similarities between the soil of Gale Crater on Mars and that of the cold, sub-Arctic climate of…
Dingo (Dingo) are an iconic element of Australia’s biodiversity, but evidence-based management and conservation of dingoes depends on understanding their origins and population history. New ResearchIssued…
Dingoes are found across most of the Australian continent.Dominique Jeanmaire/Getty Images/iStockphoto Analysis of ancient dingo DNA suggests that Australia's native wild dogs arrived in two migration…
The snow leopard was one of the animals hunted by the DenisovansKlaus Honal / Alamy The ancient humans known as the Denisovans hunted a wide variety…
Ancient ritual sticks discovered in Australia's Clogs CaveGunaikurnai Land and Water Aboriginal Corporation Wooden artefacts found in Australian caves suggest Aboriginal rituals recorded in the 19th…
The ancient ship and its cargo are estimated to date to the 13th century BC, making it one of the oldest shipwrecks ever discovered. Canaanite amphorae…
Coloured dyes were essential commodities in the Mediterranean region during the Late Bronze Age. Berger and his colleagues unearthed a purple dye factory at site K10…
Italian archaeologists have unearthed the so-called Sacramento in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city frozen in time after the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.…
Pachystropheus reticulum One of the last thalattosaurs, it was a large marine lizard with otter-like behaviour that could move on land, but was likely a primarily…
Animal sculptures carved into rocks along the Orinoco River in South AmericaPhilip Riris et al. The prehistoric rock carvings of giant snakes along the Orinoco River…