Archaeology

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Medieval grave of 48 people found in English countryside is testimony to 'Black Death' effect

Archaeologists found a mass grave in the rural Lincolnshire which contained 48 people, including women and 21 children

Feb 19, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

View of the entrance to Shanidar Cave, in the foothills of the Baradost Mountains of North-East Iraqi Kurdistan.

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Compassion, thy name was not new to even Neanderthals; Iraqi cave findings reveal it

The newly discovered Neanderthal remains dubbed as Shanidar Z who lived almost 70,000-years-ago was excavated at Shanidar Cave in the foothills of Iraqi Kurdistan

Feb 19, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Science

Archaeologists discover temple complex outside Jerusalem; here are top 5 ancient sites in Israel

During Moẓa Expedition Project, archaeologists found traces of two temples about four miles from Jerusalem

Feb 16, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Science

What is ghost population? Scientists discover mysterious ancient humans after DNA analysis

Scientists have found ancient 'ghost population' after they conducted an examination on the genomes of West Africans

Feb 15, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

A detail from the throne of Tutankhamun which shows the pharaoh with his wife Ankhsenamun on the right

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On this Valentine's Day all you need to know about this 1,300-year-old Egyptian 'Love Spell'

After an ancient Egyptian magic spell deciphered, it revealed that the text and the images indicated a 1,300-year-old 'Love Spell'

Feb 14, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Science

Secrets of Mesa Verde: 800-year-old spiral rock carvings marked the solstices for Native Americans

Archaeologists from the Jagiellonian University have found that some of the rock drawings were linked to astronomic observations

Feb 13, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Science

Mohenjo Daro: The Indus Valley city name is the centre of controversies

While the researchers are clueless about why the ancient inhabitants abandoned the well planned Mohenjo Daro, new controversies emerged on the name of the city

Feb 12, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Science

Scientists set to resurrect 2000-yr-old extinct ancient date palm plants in Israel

The new study includes more ancient date palm plant seeds which involve both, male and female trees which were found from Judean desert and Qumran

Feb 10, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Science

Older than Pyramids, Turkey's Göbekli Tepe is the first temple on earth

Researchers claimed that Göbekli Tepe built before the so-called Neolithic Revolution which also predates the oldest of Egyptian pyramids by at least 8,500 years

Feb 9, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Science

Archaeologists unearth ancient board-game piece on Lindisfarne which was once raided by Vikings

After the finding of the tiny piece of worked glass, archaeologists believe that it is a gaming piece from the Viking board game hnefatafl

Feb 7, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Science

New-species of thalattosaur with sharp nose found in Alaska, lived around 200 million years ago

Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have identified a new species of thalattosaur which lived more than 200 million years ago

Feb 5, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Science

7000-year-old Neolithic era wooden well in Czech could be the oldest engineering marvel on earth

The well was accidentally discovered near the town of Ostrov in the Czech Republic during the construction of a highway in 2018

Feb 4, 2020

By Jeevan Biswas

Ancient

Science

Cahokia Civilization: à la Indus Valley Civilization, nobody knows reason behind its mysterious decline

Archaeologists conducted a study on human faeces to understand the reason behind the sudden decline of the Cahokia civilization

Feb 2, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Science

Communal tombs for high priests with about 20 sarcophagi, coffins uncovered in Egypt

Minister of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of the tombs, which were dedicated to high priests in Egypt along with other ancient artefacts

Feb 1, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

The early Quintana Roo specimens analyzed in this study.

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Human remains from underwater caves reveal early North Americans were more diverse in nature

The ancient human remains were found inside the world's most extensive underwater cave systems in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo

Jan 30, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Science

59,000-year-old Serbian stone tools reveal two major migrations by Neanderthals 40,000-year-apart

Stone tools found in a Siberia cave bear a striking resemblance to tools made by the ancient human species in eastern Europe

Jan 29, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Science

Remarkable meat-eating dinosaur species found in US

The species belongs to the allosauroids which is a group of small to large-bodied, two-legged carnivorous dinosaurs that used to live during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods

Jan 26, 2020

By IANS

Science

Archaeologists discover 50 burials, including a medieval priest's from Lincoln Cathedral

During renovation works at Lincoln Cathedral, in UK 50 burials along with the remains of a medieval priest was discovered by excavators

Jan 25, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Science

3,000-year-old Egyptian priest who wished to be heard in his afterlife can speak now

Researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London, the University of York and Leeds Museum conducted this research on 3000 years old the mummy of Nesyamun

Jan 24, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Bradshaw rock paintings in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, taken at a site off Kalumburu Road near the King Edward River.

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Australia bushfire taken toll on ancient Aboriginal sites, say archaeologists

The bushfires have blocked roads and it became difficult for the researchers to check all archaeological sites and evaluate the damage

Jan 24, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

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