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- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 21, 2017
A behind-the-scenes look at harvest time, soil drainage, and Pleistocene megafauna.
A behind-the-scenes look at harvest time, soil drainage, and Pleistocene megafauna.
Ellesmere Island fossil site yields bear teeth with cavities and remains of berry plants
The oldest ice core ever drilled outside the polar regions may contain ice that formed during the Stone Age — more than 600,000 years ago, long before modern humans appeared.
A new French study suggests that all iron tools from the Bronze Age, including King Tutankhamun’s dagger, have extraterrestrial roots.
A dense metal found in asteroids called iridium can be used to kill cancer cells without causing any harm to the healthy tissue surrounding it, according to a recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Warwick in England and Sun Yat-Sen University in China.
Exciting news for city folk and geology nerds alike.
Was St Nicholas, the fourth century saint who inspired the iconography of Santa Claus, a legend or was he a real person?
100 years ago this weekend, a meteorite ended its 4.5 billion-year journey through space when it blazed across the skies and crashed into the Strathmore countryside. Michael Alexander learned about a fragment now housed in Dundee.
How could people living during the Bronze Age pull off the difficult process of making iron?
The oldest known copy of a text claiming to be Jesus’ teachings to his brother James has been discovered in an ancient Egyptian trash dump, scattered among piles of fifth-century papyrus, ancient tax receipts and bills of sale for wagons and donkeys.