Archaeology

Roman Toilets Didn't Prevent Parasites

The Romans created a clear line between Iron Age and modern sanitation and hygiene. They built public multi-seat latrines with washing facilities and sewerage systems, they piped drinking water from aqueducts and heated public baths for washing. To augmen ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2016 - 12:04am

Sticking Together In Life And Death: Neolithic Megalithic Tomb

People of the Neolithic age around 6,000 years ago were closely connected both in life and death. This became evident in a detailed archaeological and anthropological of a collective grave containing 50 bodies near Burgos, northern Spain. In the pioneerin ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 24 2016 - 6:37am

For The Indiana Jones In You: How To Find Lost Treasure

A lost Nazi gold train was discovered in Poland. At least, that’s what a couple of treasure hunters told the world last year. Like all lost treasures, the search for this one had been going on for many years, usually without success. ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 25 2016 - 7:07pm

Not Atlantis Or Lemuria: Underwater 'Lost City' A Geological Formation

Underwater divers recently discovered paved floors, courtyards and colonnades, evidence of a long-forgotten civilization that must have perished when tidal waves hit the shores of the Greek holiday island Zakynthos. The bizarre discovery, found close to Al ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2016 - 7:00pm

Lucy's Neighbors

If "Lucy" wasn't alone, and since there is no evidence of spontaneous generation she was not alone, who else was in her neighborhood? Fossil evidence indicates that multiple early human ancestor species lived at the same time more than 3 mi ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2016 - 11:00am

Siberian Land Bridge Travelers Populating Early America Notion Is 'Biologically Unviable'

You shouldn't believe everything you read. The CDC insists salt is a problem, and the FDA asked for voluntary warning labels after the sue-and-settle lawyer group Center for Science in the Public Interest kept harassing them. Yet the evidence shows s ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2016 - 11:17am

Grolier Codex: 13th Century Maya Document Is Legit, Says Study

The Grolier Codex, an ancient document that is among the rarest books in the world, has been regarded with skepticism since it was reportedly unearthed by looters from a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, in the 1960s, but a new study claims it is both genuine and ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2016 - 5:30pm

Chatelperronian Hominins: Disputed Neanderthal Region Confirmed In France

Researchers from the University of York have helped to solve an archaeological dispute- confirming that Neanderthals were responsible for producing tools and artifacts previously argued by some to be exclusively in the realm of modern human cognitive abil ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2016 - 6:00am

12th Dead Sea Scrolls Cave Found

The Dead Sea scrolls used to be revered as holding some special insight, perhaps we were only now mature enough to understand it. More recently, it's clear these were errors and cast-offs that were given a proper burial, but have no real benefit. To a ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 9 2017 - 11:28am

Ancient Ways Humans Kept The Dead From Rising Out Of The Grave

Vampires, ghouls, zombies, they have become part of Western burial imagery even though they originated elsewhere. Yet concern about the dead rising from their graves was evident long before tales arrived from Romania or Haiti. From the 11th to 14th centuri ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2017 - 11:31am