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For such an unheralded city, Siracusa, in south-east Sicily, is surprisingly large, with a population of around 125,000. Yet remarkably at the height of its influence around 400 BC, that figure is... Scotland Yard has identified the alleged mastermind behind a ring that has been stealing religious icons from churches and monasteries in Epirus and Thessaly which subsequently ended up at European... A research paper by Anthony Barnosky, a biology professor at the University of California at Berkeley, drew global attention when published in the journal Nature on March 2 amid doomsday rumors... Anthropologist Anne Christine Taylor lived with the Achuar people of the Northern Amazon and described the traditional beliefs about how death causes specific psychological impairments to the... A massive bombardment of meteors, asteroids and comets during the early history of the solar system may have given the Saturnian moon Titan its nitrogen rich atmosphere. Titan may have... In an attempt to protect the 15000-year-old Yungang Buddhist Grottoes in northern Shanxi Province from withering, Chinese archaeologists and engineers have started restoration work. The... Three life-sized Prehispanic sculptures found in fragments almost 20 years ago at Xochicalco Archaeological Zone, Morelos, are exhibited in public for the first time at Cuauhnahuac Regional Museum,... As Hiram Bingham hacked his way through remote Andean cloudforests in search of a lost Inca citadel in 1911, little could the American adventurer have known of the tourism juggernaut that his... ARTEFACTS estimated to be 900 years old have been discovered in Bury St Edmunds and could shed light on the town’s many medieval industries. A team of archeologists has unearthed the... 7,000-year-old village discovered in Erbil Erbil city has more than 1,000 potential archeological sites. The hills were once villages that were abandoned, destroyed or the inhabitants wiped out by disease. According to Erbil Directorate of... A 17th-century shipwreck described as the "biggest discovery since the Mary Rose" is rotting so rapidly that it could disappear within five years. Divers at the wreck site just off the... An archaeology group has called for the site of a 3,500-year-old settlement in the Vale of Glamorgan to be protected. Mr Langford said some of the exposed stones were once part of a... Sitting in his vast office, crammed full of relics and curiosities, museum curator Taher Ghalia has good reason to welcome the downfall of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Instead of protecting... Newly released images from ESA’s Mars Express show Nili Fossae, a system of deep fractures around the giant Isidis impact basin. Some of these incisions into the martian crust are up to 500 m deep... It may seem strange that humans have evolved from fish, but the evidence can be found not just in fossils but also within our own bodies. Your face is your most expressive feature; it tells the... Recent excavations conducted at Jagathipadu village in Polaki mandal of Srikakulam district by the archaeology department brought to light remains of a brick stupa that dates back to the 1st century... For more than two hundred years, the question of why there are more species in the tropics has been a biological enigma. A particularly perplexing aspect is why so many species live together in... Provided by The Archaeology News Network  |
