A young woman buried in China’s Tarim Basin some 2,000 years ago went to the afterlife accompanied by the height of fashion. The woman, who was wrapped in a felt blanket and buried in a coffin ...
At first, the team thought they had found a woman’s tomb at the end of the 30-foot-long corridor filled nearly to the ceiling with fallen rock and flood debris. As they excavated the tomb chamber, ...
Off the coast of Marseille, National Geographic Explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau hauled up thousands of ancient clay vessels—and showed what fantastic discoveries modern scuba gear made possible. This ...
A research team led by Prof. Wang Zhenyou at the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIRCAS) has developed a microscopic time-gated Raman spectrometer capable ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The existence of a tunnel network under the ancient Peruvian city of Cusco had been rumored for centuries. At times stretching ...
Aerial photograph with indication of test-trench locations.Brandherm et al. Archaeologists have unearthed the largest village ever discovered in prehistoric Britain and Ireland, and it’s rewriting ...
Abstract: Archaeological sites are the physical remains of past human activity and one of the main sources of information about past societies and cultures. However, they are also the target of ...
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The discovery of an early ninth century burning event marks a turning point in Maya rule, archeologists say. The find is a rare archaeological ...
Archaeologists in Sweden discovered the ritual burial of a dog from 5,000 years ago. The remains of the dog sit alongside a nearly nine-inch-long, finely polished bone dagger. The dog was laid to rest ...
Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...
Recent excavations in the ancient Etruscan city of Vulci revealed the head of a marble statue that appears to have Greek influence. The head belongs to a kore, statues made in the images of young ...
An archeology team from Texas Tech in collaboration with Texas Historical Commission archeologists found the lost site of a centuries-old French and Spanish mission in early December. The site - ...
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