Lidar Uncovers Hundreds of Lost Maya and Olmec Ruins
An airborne lidar survey recently revealed hundreds of long-lost Maya and Olmec ceremonial sites in southern Mexico. The 32,800-square-mile area was surveyed by the Mexican Instituto…
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Pompeii archaeologists discover rare ‘slave room’
Issued on: 06/11/2021 - 16:31
Pompeii archaeologists said Saturday they have unearthed the remains of a "slave room" in an…
A Cosmic Ray Event Pinpoints the Viking Landing in Canada
The objects Dee and his colleagues studied, recovered from L’Anse aux Meadows decades ago and carefully preserved in a freezer in a Parks Canada storage facility in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia,…
Tourists enjoy the underwater ruins of a Roman coastal resort
Issued on: 21/08/2021 - 16:45
Fish dart across mosaic floors and into the ruined villas, where holidaying Romans once drank, plotted…
A Mammoth Tusk Reveals a Woolly (and Unprecedented) Tale
“That was very surprising to me,” says Bataille of these ranges, which were much larger than he’d expected. “It definitely asks the question why. What happened? Why is he doing this? Why is…