Saturday, 6 July 2019

Dig it find it old Archaeology News 6-07-2019

For Ngambri elder Matilda House, being a chauffeur-driven guest of honour on a farm on her people's traditional country was a far cry from her early memories of dealing with landowners. The 72-year-o…
Archaeologists have discovered two Viking burial ships in the Swedish municipality of Uppsala. A find of this type is rare in the country. In fact, only around ten discoveries of this kind have been …
UNESCO's World Heritage Committee has voted to list the sprawling Mesopotamian metropolis of Babylon as a World Heritage Site after three decades of lobbying efforts by Iraq. Iraq had been trying sin…
The Middle East has been home to numerous civilizations over the course of its long and tumultuous history. While the region's past is well-studied, one of these societies we know very little about—t…
Excavation of ancient Chinese tombs have revealed the oldest human skulls which were intentionally reshaped as part of a ritual to show status and wealth. At a site called Houtaomuga, scientists unea…
Thanks, videogames: we really needed you this year. If you want to avert your eyes to the outside world, double lock your mind and focus on anything but modern day life, videogames can be your friend…
LONDON (Reuters) - A brown quartzite head of young king Tutankhamen sold at auction in London for more than 4.7 million pounds on Thursday, in the face of Egyptian demands for its return. The more th…
Indian history, or what we have been taught by way of history in India, has many strange paradoxes which are hard to explain to rational, inquiring minds. At the root of these paradoxes is the Coloni…
A 10,000 year old skull - dubbed Burton's oldest ancestor - could be re-examined using modern technology more than 70 years after it was first discovered near Burton. The skull, nicknamed Greta, has …
Alaura, S., 2006. »Nach Boghasköi!«: Zur Vorgeschichte der Ausgrabungen in Boğazköy-Ḫattuša und zu den archäologischen Forschungen bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg. Münsterschwarzach Abtei: Deutsche Orient-G…
A brown quartzite head of young king Tutankhamun has sold at auction in London for more than £4.7m despite Egyptian demands for its return. The more than 3,000-year-old sculpture, displayed at Christ…
This statue of a “Ram in a Thicket” is one of pair of figures excavated at the site of Ancient Ur, in southern Iraq, and which date back to about 2600 BC. This one is exhibited at the British Museum …
The Carnac Stones and Dolmens of France, the Hunebedden of Netherlands, the Megaliths of Great Britain and the little known mysterious Stone Circles of the Gambia all share a common mystery; what pur…
The permanent human occupation on the Tibetan Plateau was facilitated by the introduction of cold-tolerant barley around 3600 years before present (BP), however, how barley agriculture spread onto th…
Two new technicolor biblical mosaics were recently uncovered at a 1,600-year-old synagogue in the Galilean town of Huqoq, joining a growing collection of art, announced UNC-Chapel Hill’s Prof. Jodi M…
A paper published today has concluded that the 33,000 year old remains of a man excavated in a cave in South Transylvania are of the victim of a bloody and murderous attack. The cause of death was du…
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Fox News Flash top headlines for July 2 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com Archaeologists have uncovered a stunning 1,600-year old Biblical mosaic in northern Israel. The mosaic depic…
Human skeletons unearthed at the Houtaomuga archaeological site in northeast China represent some of the earliest evidence of intentional skull reshaping, a new study published in the American Journa…

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