Archaeology

How Early Humans Lived, Loved, And Traveled In Ancient Africa

A new analysis of human remains from ancient DNA of six individuals buried in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia who lived between 18,000 and 5,000 years ago has produced the earliest DNA from the continent, and giving some insight into how early humans lived, t ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2022 - 8:39am

Globalization Of 1400 BC

A new study shows that supply chain cost increases coupled with inflation due to leaders just creating more currency are not new; they have been happening since ways to trade began. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 30 2022 - 3:28pm

Tomb Of Salome Found In Israel

Inscriptions on the walls and crosses in a grotto first found by grave robbers in Lachish national park of the Judean lowlands west of Jerusalem have led archaeologists to conclude it was dedicated to Salome, associated with the birth of Jesus Christ in ea ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 20 2022 - 1:22pm

Nineveh: When The Capital Of Assyria Was The Most Dazzling City In The World

Archaeologists in northern Iraq, working on the Mashki and Adad gate sites in Mosul that were destroyed by Islamic State in 2016, recently uncovered 2,700-year-old Assyrian reliefs. Featuring war scenes and trees, these rock carvings add to the bounty of ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 25 2022 - 5:01am

Lyminge: Vikings Were Brutal But Anglo-Saxon Monks Carried On

Until Alfred the Great managed to isolate and contain invaders from Scandinavia, Lyminge, a monastery in Kent, was on the front line of long-running Viking hostility. Lyminge endured repeated attacks for almost a century through effective defensive strateg ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2023 - 5:26pm

Was Richard III Under That Leicester Parking Lot Or Not?

The Dig for Richard III, authorized by the Leicester City Council and commissioned and paid for by Philippa Langley of the Richard III Society, unearthed a body and it was declared that of Richard III.  ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2023 - 1:21pm

Ancient Chinese Secret- Soup From 400 B.C.

If you think people in your family can't cook, imagine how bad the soup must have been to bury it and leave it untouched for 2,400 years.    Chinese archaeologists say a bronze cooking pot dug up near the former capital Xian (for 1,100 years- go see t ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 14 2023 - 11:06am

The Rise Of Empires As Seen By Trees

In ancient times, when things went wrong in battle or the economy, people blamed leaders (if they didn't like them) or the Gods (if they liked the leaders) but maybe they should have blamed global warming.   Errr, and cooling. A new study in Science u ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 14 2024 - 10:39pm

The Worst Disaster In The History Of British Polar Exploration Now Yields Archeological Treasure

In 1845, two ships under the command Captain John Franklin, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, left England on a voyage to chart the top of North America and a Northwest Passage that would connect the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.  Like the interior of Africa a ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 25 2024 - 3:39pm

Questioning Cleopatra's Origins

New exciting proof that Cleopatra was of African descent and killed her sister! Really? Yes, if you believe the BBC. The story, reported by AFP, the Times, and the Daily Telegraph, goes like this: In the 1920s a tomb at Ephesus in Turkey was opened which c ...

Article - Erika Hert - Aug 5 2024 - 11:44am