An African man who lived just 350 years ago was buried in a prehistoric shell midden in Amoreira in Portugal.
This was very surprising because Amoreira and other midden sites in the Muge region are well known by archaeologists for the cemeteries…
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Forensic test confirms Neolithic fisherman died by drowning in the sea
A new study has confirmed saltwater drowning as the cause of death for a Neolithic man whose remains were found in a mass grave on the coast of Northern Chile.
A team of researchers developed an enhanced version of a modern forensic test to solve…
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Heritage sites in Africa threatened by climate change
Heritage of Outstanding and Universal Value located along the African coast is at risk from climate change.
A global team of climate risk and heritage experts, where Dr Nicholas Simpson from the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) African Climate…
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Archaeologists unearth human spines threaded onto reed posts
Archaeologists have found almost 200 examples of human vertebrae threaded onto reed posts in the Chincha Valley of Peru.
The Chincha Valley had been home to the complex Chincha Kingdom from AD 1000-1400. They established an alliance with the Inca…
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Cosmic cataclysm may have caused downfall of the Hopewell Culture
Researchers from the University of Cincinnati have found evidence of a cosmic cataclysm 1,500 years that may be responsible for the downfall of the Hopewell Culture.
The Hopewell Culture was a widely dispersed set of pre-Columbian Native American…
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Scientists have shown how the freezing of a ‘slushy’ ocean of magma may be responsible for the composition of the Moon’s crust.
Scientists from the University of Cambridge and the Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon, have proposed a new model of crystallisation where crystals remained suspended in liquid magma over hundreds of millions of years as the lunar ‘slush’…
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Research reveals ancient Maya lessons on surviving drought
A new study casts doubt on drought as the driver of ancient Mayan civilisation collapse.
There is no dispute that a series of droughts occurred in the Yucatan Peninsula of southeastern Mexico and northern Central America at the end of the ninth…
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Ancient Egyptian fetus preserved due to unusual decomposition process
A fetus previously identified in a mummified Egyptian woman has remained preserved for more than 2,000 years due to an unusual decomposition process.
In April 2021, the Warsaw Mummy Project published an article that revealed the first known case…
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Scientists digitally ‘unwrap’ mummy of Pharaoh Amenhotep I
Scientists from Egypt have used three-dimensional CT (computed tomography) scanning to ‘digitally unwrap’ the royal mummy of Amenhotep I.
Amenhotep I (whose name means ‘Amun is satisfied’) was the second Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty, who…
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Study pinpoints timing of Chicxulub asteroid impact
Groundbreaking study confirms time of year when asteroid wiped out dinosaurs and 75 percent of life on Earth.
A groundbreaking study led by researchers at Florida Atlantic University and an international team of scientists conclusively confirms…
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