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Bulgarian archaeologists unearth ancient chariot

November 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | No comments yet

(AP) -- Archaeologists have unearthed an elaborately decorated 1,800-year-old chariot sheathed in bronze at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, the head of the excavation said Friday. "The ...


World's earliest nuclear family found

November 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 13 vote(s) | No comments yet

The researchers dated remains from four multiple burials discovered in Germany in 2005. The 4,600-year-old graves contained groups of adults and children buried facing each other – an unusual practice in Neolithic ...


Funerary monument reveals Iron Age belief that the soul lived in the stone

November 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 20 vote(s) | No comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have discovered an Iron Age chiseled stone slab that provides the first written evidence in the region that people believed the soul was separate from ...


Prehistoric pelvis offers clues to human development

November 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 13 vote(s) | No comments yet

Discovery of the most intact female pelvis of Homo erectus may cause scientists to reevaluate how early humans evolved to successfully birth larger-brained babies. "This is the most complete female Homo erectus ...


Skeleton of 12,000-year-old shaman discovered buried with leopard, 50 tortoises and human foot

November 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 21 vote(s) | No comments yet

The skeleton of a 12,000 year-old Natufian Shaman has been discovered in northern Israel by archaeologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The burial is described as being accompanied by "exceptional" ...


Dinosaur whodunit: Solving a 77-million-year-old mystery

November 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 15 vote(s) | No comments yet

It has all the hallmarks of a Cretaceous melodrama. A dinosaur sits on her nest of a dozen eggs on a sandy river beach. Water levels rise, and the mother is faced with a dilemma: Stay or abandon her unhatched offspring to ...


Dry spells spelled trouble in ancient China: Weakening of summer monsoons to blame

November 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | No comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chinese history is replete with the rise and fall of dynasties, but researchers now have identified a natural phenomenon that may have been the last straw for some of them: a weakening of ...


Marine plankton found in amber

November 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 35 vote(s) | User comments: 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Marine microorganisms have been found in amber dating from the middle of the Cretaceous period. The fossils were collected in Charente, in France. This completely unexpected discovery will ...


Oetzi's last supper

15 hours ago | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 13 vote(s) | User comments: 3

What we eat can say a lot about us – where we live, how we live and eventually even when we lived. From the analysis of the intestinal contents of the 5,200-year-old Iceman from the Eastern Alps, Professor James Dickson from ...


Earliest known Hebrew text in Proto-Canaanite script discovered in area where David slew Goliath

November 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 19 vote(s) | No comments yet

The earliest known Hebrew text written in a Proto-Canaanite script has been discovered by Hebrew University archaeologists in an ancient city in the area where David slew Goliath – the earliest Judean city found to date. ...


Prehistoric shaman found buried with leopard, human foot

November 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 11 vote(s) | No comments yet

Archaeologists have found the 12,000-old skeleton of a female shaman buried in northern Israel alongside 50 tortoises, body parts of a leopard, a boar and other animals as well as a human foot.


Rare publishing achievement for student provides new insights into the fossil record of whales

November 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | User comments: 1

It is extremely unusual for a student to have their work accepted for publication in a prestigious scientific journal. However, Felix Marx, a fourth year student in the Department of Earth Sciences at the ...


Study of oldest turtle fossil

November 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 15 vote(s) | No comments yet

With hard bony shells to shelter and protect them, turtles are unique and have long posed a mystery to scientists who wonder how such an elegant body structure came to be.


Jurassic Croc unearthed by Swiss motorway works

November 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | No comments yet

Swiss dinosaur experts on Monday exhumed the skeleton of a 150 million year-old marine crocodile unearthed during motorway construction works in the Jura mountain, Swiss news agency ATS reported.


Archeologists say they found witch doctor skeleton

November 18, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | User comments: 1

(AP) -- Archeologists believe a 12,000-year-old skeleton found in a grave containing 50 tortoise shells, a leopard pelvis, a cow tail and part of an eagle wing is the remains of a witch doctor.


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