What future do we face? What future do we want? What must we do to get there?
These three questions preoccupy us all. We can’t predict the future. However, we can imagine it and even design it; no outcome is predetermined…
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Why did the Vikings abandon Greenland?
A study led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and published recently in Science Advances, upends the previously accepted theory on why the Vikings abandoned Greenland.
Greenland, or Grœnland in Old Norse, was settled by Norwegian and…
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Researchers open lunar time capsule from Apollo 17 mission
Scientists from NASA have opened a lunar time capsule from the Apollo 17 mission conducted in 1972.
The Apollo mission was the final mission of NASA’s Apollo program, in which Commander Eugene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt…
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Scientists solve solar secret
The further we move away from a heat source, the cooler the air gets. Bizarrely, the same can’t be said for the Sun, but University of Otago scientists may have just explained a key part of why.
Study lead Dr Jonathan Squire, of the Department…
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Researchers reveal the burial rituals of the “oldest city in the world”
An international team of researchers have provided new insight into the burial rituals of Çatalhöyük, considered the “oldest city in the world”.
Çatalhöyük is an ancient proto city from the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods, located on…
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Well-preserved fossils could be consequence of past global climate change
Climate change can affect life on Earth. According to new research, it can also affect the dead.
A study of exceptionally preserved fossils led by a graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin has found that rising global temperatures…
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A possible Neolithic crime scene in Serbia
In 1931, Serbian archaeologist Miloje Vasić discovered a pit containing human skeletal remains whilst researching the Vinča-Belo Brdo archaeological site in the suburbs of Belgrade, Serbia.
In his diary, Vasić remarked the discovery as “an…
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Mummification in Europe may be older than previously thought
A multi-national study of the Sado Valley in Portugal suggests that mummification in Europe may be older than previously thought.
The study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology, suggests that European Mesolithic peoples may have been…
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Acoustic remote sensing reveals sunken Roman city of Baia
NORBIT Subsea and 2BControl, in collaboration with the Institute of Heritage Science of the Italian National Research Council, have conducted a study of the partially submerged Roman city of Baia in the Gulf of Naples, Italy.
Baia was a…
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Archaeologists find evidence of the first successful ear surgery 5,300 years ago
A team from the University of Valladolid have published in the journal ‘Scientific Reports’, evidence of the first successful ear surgery from excavations conducted at the ‘El Pendón’ dolmen located in Reinoso, Northern Spain.
The study…
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