Ancient history
Ancient rice discovery in Guam reveals earliest evidence of rice in Pacific islands
researchers find 3,500-year-old rice remains in ritidian beach cave, indicating first settlers brought rice from the philippines.
Ancient sarcophagus of 'Pa-di-Hor-pa-khered' returns to Egypt
Deep within Sky Place pyramid, Archaeologists find tomb of Maya ruler Te K'ab Chaak
Museum finds 67.5-million-year-old dinosaur fossil beneath parking lot
Did King Eglon rule Jericho? Moabite shard and twin palace infernos revive biblical tale
Interim excavation report (Vicino Oriente XXIX, 2024) links a ninth-century BCE inscription and two Bronze-Age fire layers to the Judges and Exodus narratives.
Not just a madman: Yale study reveals Caligula's medical expertise
Study suggests Caligula's medical knowledge influenced his actions as emperor.
Was Sodom destroyed by a comet? Journal pulls controversial study
Scientific Reports retracts 2021 Tall el-Hammam “airburst” paper after reviewers say the evidence does not add up.
Bayeux Tapestry headed back to Britain, a first in nearly a 1,000 years
In return, artefacts from the Sutton Hoo burial and the Lewis Chessmen will travel to Normandy as part of an unprecedented cross-Channel cultural exchange.
AI cracks Hammurabi’s ancient script with near-perfect accuracy
Computers now read cuneiform tablets almost flawlessly.
Where did date palms come from? Earliest secure evidence points to the Gulf, c. 5000 BCE
‘DateBack’ logs 154 archaeobotanical records and tracks the moment cultivation overtook mere consumption across West and South Asia.
New sonar scans reignite legend of ‘Krishna’s sunken kingdom’ off Dwarka
Seabed scans found harbour-like masonry and Harappan anchors. India’s Archaeological Survey plans a winter 2025 dig and trains diver-archaeologists to see if myth meets submerged stone.
In oxygen-deprived clay: 300,000-year-old wooden tools unearthed in China
Tools used for digging up underground plant foods, supporting the idea of a plant-based diet among early humans.
Ancient inscriptions reveal identity of Great Pyramid builders
Dr. Zahi Hawass says builders were not slaves; they wouldn't have been buried 'in the shadow of the pyramids'.
Ancient Egyptian potter lived into his 60s, genome sequencing reveals
His remains were preserved in a clay pot, enabling the first successful sequencing of ancient Egyptian DNA.
Several walled oases uncovered in Saudi Arabia shed light on ancient community investment
Evidence suggests the walled oasis phenomenon began around 3000 BC at Tayma and Qurayyah and spread to the Harrat Khaybar region by the end of the third millennium BC.
