Tagged: excavations

The skull of a Spaniard, bottom left, a child, center, and a person of African heritage sit alongside models of what a Spanish conquistador and a person of mixed Amerindian and African descent may have looked like, at the Zultepec-Tecoaque archeological site in Tlaxcala state,...

Four ancient skulls unearthed from submerged caves in Mexico suggest that early humans in North America were much more diverse than previously believed, according to a new study. The skeletons were discovered by underwater archaeologists in a limestone cave system and are dated to between...

An international team of researchers in South Africa has discovered that our ancestor Homo erectus is older than we thought. An excavation at Drimolen near Johannesburg uncovered the remains of a hominin, a prehistoric ancestor sometimes described as a “ghost species” of humans. “During our...

Possibly a ‘Archaeological Site’ spotted in NASA “Global Mars Surveyor Mission” photo. Mars Global Surveyor arrived at Mars on September 11, 1997, and has contributed a multitude of findings, including signs of past, persistent water such as an ancient delta and currently active water features...

– When did humans first appear in North America? That’s a question no scientist can answer. There are of course several hypotheses based on archaeological evidence, but new discoveries force researchers to re-evaluate previous theories, and that can sometimes lead to controversy in the scientific...

– While excavating in British Columbia, archaeologists have unearthed a 14-year-old settlement that is only much older than the Roman Empire and the Egyptian pyramids, but also confirms ancient oral myths of the Heiltsuk Nation and the concept of ‘time immemorial’. “Heiltsuk oral history talks...

On February 25, 1866, miners found a human skull in a mine, beneath a layer of lava, 130 feet (40 m) below the surface of the earth, which made it into the hands of Josiah Whitney, then the State Geologist of California as well as...

– Archaeologists have found traces of the lost kingdom of Rheged from the Dark Ages. During excavations at the Trusty’s Hill Fort in Galloway, Scotland scientists were initially investigating Pictish carvings. However, they soon discovered evidence the site might in fact have been the royal...

On December 18, 1888, the Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde, Colorado, was discovered by rancher Richard Wetherill (1858- 1910) and his brother-in-law Charlie Mason, who were riding across the mesa top looking for stray cattle. Richard Wetherill, perhaps the most influential amateur archaeologist of the...

– Some archaeologists are willing to risk their lives in the name of science and ancient history. Excavating just 45 kilometers from IS territory, a group of German archeologists have unearthed a large Bronze Age city not far from the town of Dohuk in northern...