Category: Arch/ Anthro

The Cranfield Forensic Institute, working in collaboration with the POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), has assisted in the identification and recovery of a missing USAF airman near Caltagirone, Sicily.

In 1943, Second Lieutenant Allan W. Knepper…

The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement to be established in the Americas.

It was founded on the northeast bank of the James River, southwest of present-day Williamsburg, serving as the…

A DNA analysis of a sacrificial child burial at the Mexican site of Paquimé has revealed evidence of close relative mating among elites.

Paquimé, also known as Casas Grandes, is one of the largest and most complex Mogollon culture sites in the…

In the mid-1930s, archaeologists excavating in Deir El-Bahari near Luxor made a remarkable discovery: a mummy whose facial expression appeared to be screaming.

Dubbed the “Screaming Woman”, the mummy was found in one of the burial chambers…

Archaeologists have discovered an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the grounds of the Old Bell Hotel in Malmesbury, England.

The Old Bell Hotel is located adjacent to Malmesbury Abbey, a former Benedictine abbey dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

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Ancient Egyptian scribes’ life works are written on their bones.

Arthritis and other damage mark the scribes’ skeletons where the men sat cross-legged or kneeled hunched over papyrus scrolls, researchers describe June 27 in…

Genetic clues have unveiled a type of ritual child sacrifice at an ancient Maya site that consisted only of young boys, often chosen as closely related pairs that included twins.

The discovery stems from a burial of more than 100…

Two lines of ancient apes, including what may be the smallest great ape yet, lived alongside each other in Europe, fossils discovered in a Bavarian clay pit indicate. It’s the first time that different species of ape, each with a…

A study, published in the journal Science Direct, has revealed the discovery of two infant burials beneath a prehistoric “dragon stone” in Armenia.

“Dragon stones”, also known as vishapakar, are basalt monoliths found in the Armenian…