A team of researchers working for fourteen years have managed to bring to life an entirely extinct tree, resurrecting a lost species that was originally mentioned in the Bible. The discovery, published in Communications Biology, could bring to life a tree from the time of Christ and Roman Judea. The seeds for this tree, a
The Nazca geoglyphs are an enduring puzzle. We do not really understand why these ancient peoples in the south of what is now Peru traced enormous patterns on the barren plains of their homelands, nor even how they were supposed to be viewed. In fact, this is the core mystery at the heart of the
Archaeologists excavating a site in the Maghreb desert in north western African known as Oued Beht have uncovered evidence of a farming society from the Neolithic that was completely unknown, according to a paper in the journal Antiquity, published by Cambridge University Press. The culture appears to have been complex and is, at this time,
Archaeologists in Bulgaria have uncovered something they did not expect while excavating a necropolis mound in the Varna Province. The site has previously revealed only Bronze Age finds, but the new mound is far later, dating to the Roman period around the 2nd or 3rd century AD. Chief among the finds from the new excavation
Researchers in Italy excavating a crypt in Milan’s Ospedale Maggiore have discovered something which sets established history on its head: traces of cocaine in the brains of two bodies, which suggests the drug was used far earlier than previously thought. Conventional historical wisdom tells us that cocaine use in Europe started in the 19th century.
An excavation team led by Dr. Ahmed Saeed El-Kharadly have uncovered an ancient sword in Egypt’s Beheira Governate in the north of the country, between Alexandria and Cairo and in the heart of ancient Egypt. The sword was found at the Tell Al-Abqain archaeological site, in what appears to have been a military storage complex