Unearthing History: Exclusive Peek into the First Pompeii Excavation in 70 Years!
Pompeii Unearthed: A Closer Look at the First Excavation in 70 Years The ancient city of Pompeii, frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, has…
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What exactly is the problem with the Manitou Cliff Dwellings Museum and Preserve?
William S. Crosby of Manitou Springs and Harold Ashenhurst of Texas may have come up with the idea, but it took the influence and political experience of Virginia McClurg — one of the original preservationists behind Mesa Verde National Park, which was …
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Everywhere addresses Indigenous deep history while contesting linear, colonial assumptions that “Dates add nothing to our culture.”
When the eminent Australian anthropologist W. E. H. Stanner first published his essay on “The Dreaming” in 1956, there was increasing scholarly and popular interest in the complexity and duration of Australia’s Indigenous cultures. That same year, an …
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Amazing reconstruction depicts “lonely youngster” who perished in Norwegian cave 8,300 years ago and had a malformed head.
About 8,300 years ago, a teenage boy with an unusual skull and short stature may have scampered along the rocky coast of what is now Norway, pausing to regain his balance as he clutched a fishing rod. Now, a new full-body reconstruction of the Stone Age …
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Dragon Man, a 146,000-year-old fossil, may be one of our closest relatives.
A recreation of Dragon Man Chuang Zhao Three years ago, a Chinese farmer made an unusual donation to a university museum—a giant, nearly intact human skull with strange proportions and an unusual backstory. The man’s family had been hiding the fossil …
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Fish Bones Discovered in California’s Demolished Chinatown Show Intricate 19th-Century Trading Network
Researchers identified that these vertebrae belonged to giant snakeheads, freshwater fish native to Southeast Asia. Ryan Kennedy About 135 years ago, in a Chinatown in San Jose, California, the leftover bones from a luxurious fish landed in a communal …
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5,500 years ago, ancient Chinese people domesticated leopard cats.
The 5,500 year old cat remains found more than a decade ago in China have been identified as the leopard cat ( Prionailurus bengalensis ) by an international team of scientists, led by Sorbonne University researcher Jean-Denis Vigne. Leopard cat. Tambako …
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There was earlier dairying evidence throughout the Mediterranean coast.
An international research group has found evidence that humans have been utilizing milk and dairy products across the northern Mediterranean region from the onset of agriculture – approximately 9,000 years ago. C.D. Spiteri et al discovered widespread …
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Princess Aebbe’s Long-Lost Convent May Have Been Discovered by Archaeologists.
A team of professional and amateur archaeologists believe they may have discovered the monastery of Aebbe (615-683 CE), a powerful Anglo-Saxon woman who helped shape British history. Coldingham Priory. Image credit: DigVentures / Aerial Cam. Born a pagan …
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Residents from Calusa kept live fish in watercourts.
In the 16th century, the Calusa , a fisher-gatherer-hunter society, were the most politically complex polity in Florida, and Mound Key , an island in Estero Bay off Florida’s Gulf Coast, was their capital. The available evidence indicates that the Calusa …
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