An 800-year-old skeleton found in Australia has a long gash on his skull — perhaps inflicted by the sharp edge of a boomerang.
A facial reconstruction has been made of Orkney's St Magnus by a forensic artist to help mark the 900th anniversary of his death.
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Humans living in South Africa in the Middle Stone Age used advanced heating techniques that vastly improved living conditions during the era. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
Genghis Khan may have died of bubonic plague, and not from blood loss after being castrated or other causes bandied about over the centuries, a new study finds.
One of the best known prehistoric archaeological sites in Scotland, Jarlshof in Shetland -the remains of this site date from 2500 BC up to the 17th century AD.
An international team of researchers has reconstructed the face and brain of a 3,500-year-old Egyptian mummy, revealing a unique "packing" embalming treatment.
Archaeologists aren't sure which biblical king is being depicted in this miniature sculpture found in ancient Israel.
The eruption quickly killed those caught in its intense wake.
Some lucky kindergarteners accidentally uncovered ancient human remains in their school playground. Turns out, the artifacts belonged to a 5,600-year-old burial site containing at least 30 skeletons.
Humans began transporting and growing banana in Vanuatu 3000 years ago, a University of Otago scientist has discovered. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
The story of human evolution just got even more bizarre. The genome of an extinct hominin species, the Denisovans, contains unusual snippets of DNA that seem to have come from yet another group. It could be evidence of an entirely new species of...
Frankincense, used by humans since ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, gets its "old church" smell from two previously unknown molecules.
Analysis of a Neanderthal specimen's genome and study of Neanderthal alleles in human populations reveals that Neanderthal genes influence nondisease-related phenotypes
If you’ve ever wondered whether your ancestors served as a medieval soldier in the Hundred Years War, a newly launched website from historians at the universities of Southampton and Reading may have the answer. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
For centuries, historians have assumed that 'primitive societies' couldn’t have possibly come up with advanced techniques on their own.
Griffith University scientists have led an international team to date the skull of an early human found in Africa, potentially upending human evolution knowledge with their discovery.
Nubia was an early civilization that eventually ruled Egypt. Its people still live along the Nile River.
In the North-West Caucasus, from Abkhazia to the Taman Peninsula, are thousands of ancient dolmens which the locals call “ispun”, meaning the “houses of dwarves”. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
