Monthly Archives: July, 2012
When the World Burned Less
In the years after Columbus’ voyage, burning of New World forests and fields diminished significantly – a phenomenon some have attributed to decimation of native populations by European diseases. But a new University of Utah-led study suggests global cooling resulted in fewer fires because both preceded Columbus in many regions worldwide.
Archaeologists from Bonn discover in Mexico the tomb of a Maya prince
Archaeologists from the Department of Anthropology of the Americas at the University of Bonn have been excavating for the past four years together with the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History in the Maya city of Uxul in Campeche, Mexico.
“The Sultan of the Two Seas” Hoping for a World Heritage Crown
Alanya Castle is hoping that 10 years of hard work will finally be rewarded when a group from the UNESCO World Cultural and Heritage Committee visit in September of this year.
New archaeological dig to investigate the birth of Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England
The University of Reading has been awarded funding for a research project aiming to transform our understanding of how Christianity impacted daily life in Anglo-Saxon England.
A medieval “Chronicle of Emperors” for the twenty-first century
The 12th-century German “Chronicle of the Emperors” (Kaiserchronik) – widely regarded by scholars as one of the most important literary works of the European Middle Ages – is to receive a landmark new edition.
Archaeologists uncover Palaeolithic ceramic art
Ceramics found on the coast of the Adriatic attest to a hitherto unknown artistic culture which flourished during the last Ice Age, thousands of years before pottery was commonly used.
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