4 500 years old skeleton provides first human genome sequence from Africa

4 500 years old skeleton provides first human genome sequence from Africa

A team of researchers from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Ventura College and UCLA Extension have provided the first ancient human genome sequence from Africa. The discovery holds the potential to provide new information about how ancient African…

Major prehistoric stone monument found near Stonehenge

Major prehistoric stone monument found near Stonehenge

The remains of a major new prehistoric stone monument have been discovered less than 3 km (1.8 miles) from Stonehenge and announced on the first day of the British Science Festival on September 7, 2015. Using cutting edge, multi-sensor technologies the Stonehenge

Scientists unite to reconstruct ancient country lost during the last Ice Age

Scientists unite to reconstruct ancient country lost during the last Ice Age

An interdisciplinary research group of scientists, comprising of archeologists, molecular biologists and computer scientists across the UK, will try to digitally re-construct an ancient landscape of a prehistoric country, covered by rising sea levels of the past climate

3.3-million-year-old stone tools found in Kenya

3.3-million-year-old stone tools found in Kenya

Scientists working in the desert badlands of northwestern Kenya have found stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, long before the advent of modern humans, and by far the oldest such artifacts yet discovered. The tools, whose makers may or may not have been some

Long series of droughts doomed Mexican city 1000 years ago

Long series of droughts doomed Mexican city 1000 years ago

Archaeologists continue to debate the reasons for the collapse of many Central American cities and states, from Teotihuacan in Mexico to the Yucatan Maya, and climate change is considered one of the major causes.A University of California, Berkeley, study sheds new ligh

Oldest ever engraving discovered on 500 000-year-old shell

Oldest ever engraving discovered on 500 000-year-old shell

Homo erectus on Java was already using shells of freshwater mussels as tools half a million years ago, and as a 'canvas' for an engraving. An international team of researchers, led by Leiden archaeologist José Joordens, published this discovery on Decembe

Investigating giants of the Georgian Caucasus

Investigating giants of the Georgian Caucasus

Early in 2014, whilst I was busy researching and exploring the ancient megalithic ruins here in Ecuador nicknamed as ‘The Lost City of Giants’, I was contacted by a television production company interested in giants. This contact eventually led to my being i

Fibonacci alignments of the Azores Pyramid & submerged city of Poseida

Fibonacci alignments of the Azores Pyramid & submerged city of Poseida

An impressive new discovery in the Azores Islands occurred in early May 2013, and was announced to worldwide media coverage on September 19th. This unusual discovery took place by sheer accident. When local yachtsman Diocleciano Silva was deep-sea fishing between