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UNESCO Director-General appeals for concerted action to prevent loss or destruction of Timbuktu’s documentary heritage

UNESCO Director-General appeals for concerted action to prevent ...

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova voiced alarm over the safety of Timbuktu’s invaluable cultural heritage, following reports that rebels have over-run ...

Wadi Abu Subeira, Egypt: Palaeolithic rock art on the verge of destruction

Wadi Abu Subeira, Egypt: Palaeolithic rock art on ...

In 2007 one of the most important recent archaeological discoveries in Egypt were made in Wadi (Chor) Abu Subeira near ...

Burtele Foot Indicates Lucy Not Alone

Burtele Foot Indicates Lucy Not Alone

A new fossil discovery from Eastern Africa called the Burtele foot indicates Australopithecus afarensis, an early relative of modern humans, ...

Ancient Egyptian cotton unveils secrets of domesticated crop evolution

Ancient Egyptian cotton unveils secrets of domesticated crop ...

Scientists studying 1,600-year-old cotton from the banks of the Nile have found what they believe is the first evidence that ...

Ancient tree-ring records from southwest U.S. suggest today’s megafires are truly unusual

Ancient tree-ring records from southwest U.S. suggest today’s ...

Unprecedented study relies on more than 1,500 years of tree-ring data and hundreds of years of fire-scar records gathered from ...

Archaeologists excavate Iowa’s history to reveal the past

Archaeologists excavate Iowa’s history to reveal the past

Sixty volunteers helped out with a 10-day dig this past March and April on the Amana Society farmland just outside ...

New coelacanth find rewrites history of the ancient fish

New coelacanth find rewrites history of the ancient ...

Coelacanths, an ancient group of fishes once thought to be long extinct, made headlines in 1938 when one of their ...

Redefining archaeological research

Redefining archaeological research

Gently cradling a 5,000-year-old cuneiform clay tablet from Ur (modern day Iraq), Andrew Nelson wishes he could peel back the ...

RAF Dakota crash victims buried after 60 years

RAF Dakota crash victims buried after 60 years

British Army and RAF personnel killed in a plane crash in the Malaysian jungle in 1950 have been buried with ...

New light on enigmatic burial rituals in Cambodian mountains

New light on enigmatic burial rituals in Cambodian ...

First radiocarbon dates for unusual jar and log coffin interments on exposed ledges Researchers from the University of Otago in ...

The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China

The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han ...

In the first exhibition of its kind, the Fitzwilliam Museum will relate the story of the quest for immortality and ...

What’s in a surname? New study explores what the evolution of names reveals about China

What’s in a surname? New study explores what ...

What can surnames tell us about the culture, genetics and history of our society? That is the question being answered ...

Sulphur and iron compounds common in old shipwrecks

Sulphur and iron compounds common in old shipwrecks

Sulphur and iron compounds have now been found in shipwrecks both in the Baltic and off the west coast of ...

The oldest farming village in the Mediterranean islands is discovered in Cyprus

The oldest farming village in the Mediterranean islands ...

The oldest agricultural settlement ever found on a Mediterranean island has been discovered in Cyprus by a team of French ...

Anthropologists discover earliest form of wall art

Anthropologists discover earliest form of wall art

Anthropologists working in southern France have determined that a 1.5 metric ton block of engraved limestone constitutes the earliest evidence ...

Italian merchants funded England’s discovery of North America

Italian merchants funded England’s discovery of North America

Evidence that a Florentine merchant house financed the earliest English voyages to North America, has been published on-line in the ...

Arabic records allow past climate to be reconstructed

Arabic records allow past climate to be reconstructed

Corals, trees and marine sediments, among others, are direct evidence of the climate of the past, but they are not ...

Archaeologists discover lost language

Archaeologists discover lost language

Evidence for a forgotten ancient language which dates back more than 2,500 years, to the time of the Assyrian Empire, ...

Hebrew University archaeologist finds the first evidence of a cult in Judah at the time of King David

Hebrew University archaeologist finds the first evidence of ...

Prof. Yosef Garfinkel, the Yigal Yadin Professor of Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ...

Ancient network of rivers and lakes found in Arabian Desert

Ancient network of rivers and lakes found in ...

Satellite images have revealed that a network of ancient rivers once coursed their way through the sand of the Arabian ...

HMS St Albans honours Arctic heroes 70 years on

HMS St Albans honours Arctic heroes 70 years ...

HMS St Albans has spent five days in Iceland to pay her respects to those mariners who took part in ...

Vandals damage Roman stonework at Scarborough castle

Vandals damage Roman stonework at Scarborough castle

Night time attack risks damage to sensitive archaeology dating back more than 2,500 years

How stone age man invented the art of raving

How stone age man invented the art of ...

New scientific techniques reveal how large tribal gatherings swept neolithic Britain

Glastonbury Abbey excavations reveal Saxon glass industry

Glastonbury Abbey excavations reveal Saxon glass industry

New research led by the University of Reading has revealed that finds at Glastonbury Abbey provide the earliest archaeological evidence ...