Tag: Archaeology
Recordings of the magnetic field from 9,000 years ago teach us...
International research by Tel Aviv University, the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, and the University of California San Diego uncovered findings regarding...
Researchers find 3,000-year-old shark attack victim
A combination of archaeological science and forensic techniques have helped to show that his body is the earliest direct evidence of a shark attack.
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One of the largest ever land mammals evolved into extinct dwarf...
Sicilian dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon cf. mnaidriensis lived on the island of Sicily and went extinct 19,000 years ago. A new study shows that an extinct...
Ancient Australian Aboriginal memory tool superior to ‘memory palace’ learning
Aboriginal memory tools might be one of the most efficient ways to keep facts memorized. Studies show that learning and memorizing techniques by Australian...
‘Pristine’ landscapes haven’t existed for thousands of years due to human...
It has been thousands of years since the Earth had pristine landscapes. A new article identifies four major phases when humans shaped the world...
Researchers prove humans in Southern Arabia 10,000 years earlier than first...
Credit: University of Huddersfield
THE last Ice Age made much of the globe uninhabitable, but there were oases - or refugia - where people 20,000...
Bullet indicates Lawrence of Arabia was no liar
The desert scene of the ambush; Lawrence and the Bedouin lay in wait where the railway embankment curves around
© Nicholas Saunders
A bullet fired by...
