• Inside the Maya king’s tomb that rewrites Mesoamerican history
    Saturday, July 12, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Ancient Civilization News
    A major breakthrough in Maya archaeology has emerged from Caracol, Belize, where the University of Houston team uncovered the tomb of Te K'ab Chaak—Caracol’s first known ruler. Buried with elaborate jade, ceramics, and symbolic...
  • The first pandemic? Scientists find 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric DNA
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Archaeology News
    Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague. The findings show zoonotic diseases began spreading around 6,500 years ago, likely triggered by farming and...
  • North america’s oldest pterosaur unearthed in Arizona’s Triassic time capsule
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Archaeology News
    In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ecosystems. This exciting find, alongside...
  • Buried for 23,000 years: These footprints are rewriting American history
    Sunday, June 29, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Archaeology News
    Footprints found in the ancient lakebeds of White Sands may prove that humans lived in North America 23,000 years ago — much earlier than previously believed. A new study using radiocarbon-dated mud bolsters earlier findings, making it...
  • Tapping into the world's largest gold reserves
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Lost Treasures News -- ScienceDaily
    Deep beneath our feet, the Earth holds a hidden treasure trove of gold and rare metals more than 99.999% of it locked away in the planet s core. But a surprising new discovery in Hawaiian lava is shaking up what scientists thought they...
  • This team tried to cross 140 miles of treacherous ocean like stone-age humans—and it worked
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Archaeology News
    Experiments and simulations show Paleolithic paddlers could outwit the powerful Kuroshio Current by launching dugout canoes from northern Taiwan and steering southeast toward Okinawa. A modern crew proved it, carving a Stone-Age-style...
  • No kings buried here: DNA unravels the myth of incestuous elites in ancient Ireland
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Archaeology News
    DNA from a skull found at Newgrange once sparked theories of a royal incestuous elite in ancient Ireland, but new research reveals no signs of such a hierarchy. Instead, evidence suggests a surprisingly egalitarian farming society that...
  • Monster salamander with powerful jaws unearthed in Tennessee fossil find
    Tuesday, June 17, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Archaeology News
    A massive, extinct salamander with jaws like a vice once roamed ancient Tennessee and its fossil has just rewritten what we thought we knew about Appalachian amphibians. Named Dynamognathus robertsoni, this powerful predator wasn t just...
  • 2,000 miles through rivers and ice: Mapping neanderthals’ hidden superhighways across eurasia
    Tuesday, June 10, 2025 from Lost Treasures News -- ScienceDaily
    Neanderthals may have trekked thousands of miles across Eurasia much faster than we ever imagined. New computer simulations suggest they used river valleys like natural highways to cross daunting landscapes during warmer climate windows....
  • New evidence reveals advanced maritime technology in the philippines 35,000 years ago
    Monday, June 9, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Archaeology News
    In a bold reimagining of Southeast Asia s prehistory, scientists reveal that the Philippine island of Mindoro was a hub of human innovation and migration as far back as 35,000 years ago. Advanced tools, deep-sea fishing capabilities, and...
  • Drone tech uncovers 1,000-year-old native american farms in michigan
    Saturday, June 7, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Ancient Civilization News
    In the dense forests of Michigan s Upper Peninsula, archaeologists have uncovered a massive ancient agricultural system that rewrites what we thought we knew about Native American farming. Dating back as far as the 10th century, the...
  • 3,500-year-old graves reveal secrets that rewrite bronze age history
    Friday, June 6, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Archaeology News
    Bronze Age life changed radically around 1500 BC in Central Europe. New research reveals diets narrowed, millet was introduced, migration slowed, and social systems became looser challenging old ideas about nomadic Tumulus culture herders.
  • Researchers recreate ancient Egyptian blues
    Monday, June 2, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Ancient Civilization News
    Researchers have recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago.
  • Long shot science leads to revised age for land-animal ancestor
    Thursday, May 29, 2025 from Lost Treasures News -- ScienceDaily
    The fossils of ancient salamander-like creatures in Scotland are among the most well-preserved examples of early stem tetrapods -- some of the first animals to make the transition from water to land. Thanks to new research, scientists...
  • New method provides the key to accessing proteins in ancient human remains
    Wednesday, May 28, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Archaeology News
    A new method could soon unlock the vast repository of biological information held in the proteins of ancient soft tissues. The findings could open up a new era for palaeobiological discovery.
  • Oldest whale bone tools discovered
    Tuesday, May 27, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Archaeology News
    Humans were making tools from whale bones as far back as 20,000 years ago, according to a new study. This discovery broadens our understanding of early human use of whale remains and offers valuable insight into the marine ecology of the...
  • Earliest use of psychoactive and medicinal plant 'harmal' identified in Iron Age Arabia
    Friday, May 23, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Archaeology News
    A new study uses metabolic profiling to uncover ancient knowledge systems behind therapeutic and psychoactive plant use in ancient Arabia.
  • Ancient DNA used to map evolution of fever-causing bacteria
    Thursday, May 22, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Archaeology News
    Researchers have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through lice rather than ticks, and how it gained and lost genes in the process.
  • Asians made humanity's longest prehistoric migration and shaped the genetic landscape in the Americas
    Thursday, May 15, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Archaeology News
    An international genomics study has revealed that early Asians undertook humanity's longest known prehistoric migration. These early humans, who roamed the earth over 100,000 years ago, are believed to have traveled more than 20,000...
  • Dexterity and climbing ability: how ancient human relatives used their hands
    Wednesday, May 14, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Archaeology News
    Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands. Researchers investigated variation in finger bone morphology to determine that South African hominins not only may have had...
  • Palaeontologists discover 506-million-year-old predator
    Tuesday, May 13, 2025 from Lost Treasures News -- ScienceDaily
    Palaeontologists have discovered a remarkable new 506-million-year-old predator from the Burgess Shale of Canada. Mosura fentoni was about the size of your index finger and had three eyes, spiny jointed claws, a circular mouth lined with...
  • Vast Aztec trade networks behind ancient obsidian artifacts
    Monday, May 12, 2025 from Lost Treasures News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers analyzed 788 obsidian artifacts from Tenochtitlan, revealing that the Mexica (Aztec) Empire sourced this important material from at least eight different locations, including regions outside their political control. While 90%...
  • Researchers map 7,000-year-old genetic mutation that protects against HIV
    Friday, May 9, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Archaeology News
    Modern HIV medicine is based on a common genetic mutation. Now, researchers have traced where and when the mutation arose -- and how it protected our ancestors from ancient diseases.
  • Triassic fossil reveals nature's best jaw for hunting fast fish
    Wednesday, May 7, 2025 from Lost Treasures News -- ScienceDaily
    Newly discovered species of extinct fish shows striking similarities to unrelated modern-day predators, suggesting certain traits have emerged multiple times and remained consistent over hundreds of millions of years.
  • Ancient Andes society used hallucinogens to strengthen social order
    Monday, May 5, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Ancient Civilization News
    Snuff tubes uncovered at Chavin de Huantar in Peru reveal how leaders used mystical experiences to cement their power.
  • One of Earth's ancient volcanic mysteries solved
    Wednesday, April 30, 2025 from Lost Treasures News -- ScienceDaily
    A new study traces a 120-million-year-old 'super-eruption' to its source, offering new insights into Earth's complex geological history.
  • Skeletal evidence of Roman gladiator bitten by lion in combat
    Wednesday, April 23, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Archaeology News
    Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a lion.
  • Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange
    Wednesday, April 23, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Archaeology News
    Ancient DNA analysis challenges our understanding of the ancient Phoenician-Punic civilization. An international team of researchers analyzing genome-wide data from 210 ancient individuals has found that Levantine Phoenician towns...
  • How activity in Earth's mantle led the ancient ancestors of elephants, giraffes, and humans into Asia and Africa
    Monday, April 21, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Archaeology News
    What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In fact, scientists believe that a plume...
  • Extreme drought contributed to barbarian invasion of late Roman Britain, tree-ring study reveals
    Thursday, April 17, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Archaeology News
    Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new study reveals. Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti and Saxons took advantage of famine and societal...
  • Wealth inequality's deep roots in human prehistory
    Monday, April 14, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Ancient Civilization News
    Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention of writing. That's according to a new study that challenges traditional views that disparities in wealth...
  • Ancient tools from a South African cave reveal connections between prehistoric people
    Wednesday, April 9, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Ancient Civilization News
    In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details in the chipped edges of the blades...
  • In Guatemala, painted altar found at Tikal adds new context to mysterious Maya history
    Tuesday, April 8, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Ancient Civilization News
    Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala, a global team of researchers has unearthed a buried altar that could unlock the secrets of a mysterious time of upheaval in the ancient...
  • New computer model reveals how Bronze Age Scandinavians could have crossed the sea
    Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from Lost Treasures News -- ScienceDaily
    People living in Bronze Age-era Denmark may have been able to travel to Norway directly over the open sea, according to a new study. To complete this study, the research team developed a new computer modeling tool that could help other...
  • Discovery of Quina technology challenges view of ancient human development in East Asia
    Monday, March 31, 2025 from Lost Treasures News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers have uncovered a complete Quina technological system in the Longtan site in southwest China. The discovery challenges the widely held perception that the Middle Paleolithic period was mostly static in East Asia.
  • Prehistoric bone tool 'factory' hints at early development of abstract reasoning in human ancestors
    Wednesday, March 5, 2025 from Lost Treasures News -- ScienceDaily
    The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new study.
  • Iberian nailed head ritual was more complex than expected
    Friday, February 21, 2025 from Lost Treasures News -- ScienceDaily
    The nailed heads ritual did not correspond to the same symbolic expression among the Iberian communities of the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, but rather a practice that differed in each settlement. In some, external individuals...
  • New study unravels the history of the largest pastoral population in Africa
    Tuesday, February 11, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Ancient Civilization News
    Researchers have uncovered the origins and genetic diversity of the Fulani, one of Africa's largest pastoral populations. The study reveals a complex genetic ancestry with influences from both North and West Africa, shaped by historical...
  • Missing link in Indo-European languages' history found
    Wednesday, February 5, 2025 from Lost Treasures News -- ScienceDaily
    Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Researchers contribute a new piece to this puzzle. They analyzed ancient DNA from 435 individuals from archaeological sites across Eurasia between 6.400--2.000 BCE. They found...
  • Lead contamination in ancient Greece points to societal change
    Thursday, January 30, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Ancient Civilization News
    Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated the environment with lead early on in antiquity. Geoscientists conducted the analyses, which revealed that...
  • Archaeologists find 'lost' site depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry
    Monday, January 27, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Ancient Civilization News
    Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that a house in England is the site of a lost residence of Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, and shown in the Bayeux Tapestry. By reinterpreting previous excavations and conducting new...
  • Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centred on women
    Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Ancient Civilization News
    A groundbreaking study finds evidence that land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain, with husbands moving to live with their wife's community. This is believed to be the first time such a system has been documented...
  • Ancient artifacts unearthed in Iraq shed light on hidden history of Mesopotamia
    Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Ancient Civilization News
    Researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan. The research provides insights into regional heritage and fills gaps in knowledge about how ancient humans lived and advanced.
  • Lead pollution likely caused widespread IQ declines in ancient Rome, new study finds
    Monday, January 6, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Ancient Civilization News
    Lead exposure is responsible for a range of human health impacts, with even relatively low levels impacting the cognitive development of children. Scientists have previously used atmospheric pollution records preserved in Arctic ice...
  • Ancient DNA unlocks new understanding of migrations in the first millennium AD
    Wednesday, January 1, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Ancient Civilization News
    Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick Institute.
  • Unique insights into lives of people who lived over 5,600 years ago near Kosenivka, Ukraine
    Wednesday, December 11, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Ancient Civilization News
    A new study sheds light on the lives of people who lived over 5,600 years ago near Kosenivka, Ukraine. Researchers present the first detailed bioarchaeological analyses of human diets from this area and provide estimations on the causes...
  • Getting to the bottom of things: Latrine findings help researcher trace the movement of people and disease
    Friday, December 6, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Ancient Civilization News
    A researcher has uncovered evidence of intestinal parasites in a 500-year-old latrine from Bruges, Belgium, and while the finding may induce queasiness in some, it is expected to provide important scientific evidence on how infectious...
  • Iberian Neolithic societies had a deep knowledge of archery techniques and materials
    Thursday, December 5, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Ancient Civilization News
    A research team has made exceptional discoveries on prehistoric archery from the early Neolithic period, 7,000 years ago. The well organic preservation of the remains of the Cave of Los Murcielagos in Albunol, Granada, made it possible...
  • How did humans and dogs become friends? Connections in the Americas began 12,000 years ago
    Wednesday, December 4, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Ancient Civilization News
    A new study sheds light on how long humans in the Americas have had relationships with the ancestors of today's dogs -- and asks an 'existential question': What is a dog?
  • Herodotus' theory on Armenian origins challenged by first whole-genome study
    Monday, November 25, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Ancient Civilization News
    Armenians, a population in Western Asia historically inhabiting the Armenian highlands, were long believed to be descendants of Phrygian settlers from the Balkans. This theory originated largely from the accounts of the Greek historian...
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