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History above ground and history below — it’s all there for the careful eye and careful hand of archaeological investigators like Tim Mulvihill, research station archaeologist at the University of...
For those who hunt for life on other worlds, water in its liquid form is perhaps the leading indicator. Life as we know it on Earth is based on water and carbon. And if organisms can prosper here in...
For carbon, the basis of life, to be able to form in the stars, a certain state of the carbon nucleus plays an essential role. In cooperation with US colleagues, physicists from the University of...
Previous studies had suggested that the most recent Neanderthals died around 33,000 years ago. But using the most up-to-date dating techniques, scientists have dated the remains of two infants of the...
In what could be a history-creating discovery for Karnataka, Carbon-14 dating of samples of about 600 skulls that were unearthed in Annigeri, in Dharwad district, over the last seven months has...
The mummified, tattooed head of an ancient Maori warrior is being returned to New Zealand after spending decades in a French museum. Monday's handover of the "toi moko" follows years of...
When archeologist John Foster started peeling the asphalt from a parking lot in downtown Ventura, he knew he wouldn't have to dig deep to find a cache of long-buried relics. He just didn't realize...
Excavation work at the Longquan Mountain Heritage Site, which belongs to the Old Stone Age and is located at Luanshan County in Henan’s Luoyang City, was finished on April 24, according to...
A beautifully preserved 700-year-old fresco has been found hidden behind a wall at an Italian church, officials have revealed. The fresco discovered in the small church of Sant'Anna, in...
In 1249, William II of Villehardouin, the Frankish ruler of the Peloponnese, began building Mystras, a fortress on a steep foothill on the northern slopes of Mt Taygetos, 6 kilometers northwest of...
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...
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