Needed: Rosetta Stones, good condition, not yet used.
Just in case you thought we knew everything there was to know about the ancient world, New Scientist brings a little mystery back with their […]
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Hobbit feet.
The New York Times has nothing better to do than look at hobbit feet: The new anatomical evidence, being reported Thursday in the journal Nature, […]
Peking man is an old, old man.
Researchers have pushed back the date humanity landed in China by a colossal 200,000 years, LiveScience reports. The latest dating of Homo erectus skulls from […]
Trophy Heads of Nazca.
The same mysterious civilization that left us the lines and inspirational giant pyramids also left puzzling piles of human heads… and PhysOrg.com reports that the […]
A 2,000-Year-Old Brain
Archaeologists found a surprise inside the severed skull of a man who lived in Britain before the Romans came. As PhysOrg reports, it had Britain’s […]
Ancient High.
Dude. Cannabis researchers in China have found world’s oldest stash: CBC reports: Researchers say they have located the world’s oldest stash of marijuana, in a […]
SONG: Build us a House (They Could See From Space)
SONG: “Build us a House (They Could See From Space).” [Download] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Ancient Peru pyramid spotted […]
The Grave of the Priestess
LiveScience is calling her a “shaman,” but since the 12,000-year-old grave is in Israel, not Siberia, that’s probably not exactly the right term. But whatever […]
Neither Chinese Chickens Nor Uighur Eggs.
China is a complicated country, and the closer people look, the more complicated it gets. Take, for example, the latest findings on the mummies of […]
Robinson Crusoe Found.
Yes, the plucky, inventive island castaway Robinson Crusoe was a fictional character. But author Robert Louis Stevenson, writing in the mid-1800s, based him on the […]
Satellite Discovers Pyramid at Nazca.
You may have caught this on MSNBC, but Italian researchers studying imagery from the Quickbird satellite discovered a 97,000-square-foot pyramid on the banks of Peru’s […]
Tracing the Evolution of Religion
BBC News recently covered a project at the intersection of theology and computer science, in which experts with scanners are digitizing and reassembling the world’s […]
The Mummies of Lima.
This summer, archaeologists discovered three bodies that had been ritually preserved 1,300 years ago in what is now the capital city of Peru. PhysOrg describes […]
The Lost World.
National Geographic takes us to a lost world, hidden under Antarctic ice for 14 million years: Researchers found the freeze-dried remains of mosses, algae, small […]
The Olympic Computer.
The New York Times shares an interesting theory about the Antikythera Mechanism, the ancient clockwork computer recovered from the Mediterranean. Instead of being some kind […]