College of Science researcher Michelle Stocker holds a cast of Triopticus primus specimen, displaying the area where the left eye was located.Credit: Virginia Tech
Iconic dinosaur shapes were present for at least a hundred million years on our planet in...
Châtelperronian body ornaments and bone points from the Grotte du Renne in Arcy-sur-Cure.Credit: © Marian Vanhaeren
Researchers from the University of York have helped to solve an archaeological dispute -- confirming that Neandertals were responsible for producing tools and artefacts...
Archaeologists Brendan Foley, Theotokis Theodoulou and Alex Tourtas excavate the Antikythera Shipwreck skeletal remains, assisted by Nikolas Giannoulakis and Gemma Smith.Credit: Photo by Brett Seymour, EUA/WHOI/ARGO
An international research team discovered a human skeleton during its ongoing excavation of the...
This is a picture of the Acanthostega fossil.Credit: Jennifer CLack
This week in the journal Nature, a team of researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in France and the University of Cambridge in the...
Associate Professor Vickie Bennett (left), Professor Allen Nutman (centre), and Dr Clark Friend (right), examining the rocks in Greenland.Credit: Courtesy of Yuri Amelin
In an extraordinary find, a team of Australian researchers have uncovered the world's oldest fossils in a...
Recovery of human remains at Vlasac, Serbia.Credit: Dušan Boric
The study of dental calculus from Late Mesolithic individuals from the site of Vlasac in the Danube Gorges of the central Balkans has provided direct evidence that Mesolithic foragers of this...
Inscribed surfaces of the stele already have revealed mention of the goddess Uni as well as a reference to the god Tina, the name of the supreme deity of the Etruscans. Credit: Mugello Valley Project
Archaeologists translating a very rare...
Credit: Vienna University of Technology
Something really drastic must have happened to end the Classic Maya Period in the 9th Century. Within a short period of time, this advanced civilisation in Central America went from flourishing to collapsing -- the...
The Preface of the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex, first panel on left, and the first three pages of the Table.Credit: Image courtesy of University of California - Santa Barbara
For more than 120 years the Venus Table of...
A bull's head in a fresco from Zippori, dating from the early Second Century CE.Credit: Photo: G. Laron
A team from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has discovered hundreds of fragments belonging to frescoes from the Roman period, in the...
Selection of bone fragments from the Cnoc Coig assemblage used within this research; highlighting the range of sizes, elements and preservation. From top, L-R, ZooMS IDs: seal, pig, remainder human.Credit: Image courtesy of University of York
Archaeologists from the Universities...
