Archeaology

According to a new study by Florida State University researchers, Native Americans were keeping eastern wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) as early as 1200 – 1400 CE. A wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo). Image credit: Vince Pahkala / CC BY-SA 3.0. Researchers knew that turkeys had been a part of Native …

A research team led by Liverpool John Moores University scientists has discovered what could be the world’s very first polluted river, contaminated 7,000 years ago. In a now-dry riverbed in the Faynan Orefield of southern Jordan, the team found evidence of anthropogenic copper pollution. Wadi Faynan, where J.P. Grattan et …

A pair of mummified knees on display in the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy, belongs to Egyptian Queen Nefertari, the favorite wife of Pharaoh Ramesses II, according to a research team led by University of Zurich scientist Prof. Frank Rühli. Egyptian Queen Nefertari playing senet, one of the world’s earliest …

Bitumen — a rare, tar-like material — from the Middle East is present in the 7th century Anglo-Saxon ship-burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, UK, according to a study led by Dr. Pauline Burger of the British Museum, London. Model of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial. The placement of the burial chamber …

An international team of archaeologists from Sweden, Greece and the United Kingdom is exploring the ruins of a previously unknown ancient city at the village of Vlochos, municipality of Palamas, central Greece. The city’s acropolis is barely visible during a cloudy day on the Thessalian plains. Image credit: Swedish Institute …