200 years of history found in Mammoth Cave passageway (Heritagedaily 07/13/2022)
Archaeologists excavating a passageway in the Mammoth Cave, the world’s longest known cave system, have uncovered artefacts dating from the 19th and 20th century.
Ancient sanctuary used by Roman soldiers nearly 2,000 years ago found in the Netherlands (Live Science 07/11/2022)
The complex had altars for Mercury, Jupiter and Hercules.
Why does ancient Egypt’s distinctive art style make everything look flat? (Live Science 07/11/2022)
Size, setting and narrative all play a role.
Oldest European human fossil possibly found in Spain (Phys.org 07/08/2022)
A jawbone fragment discovered in northern Spain last month could be the oldest known fossil of a human ancestor found to date in Europe, Spanish paleontologists said Friday.
Archaeologists plan to excavate tomb linked to King Arthur (Heritagedaily 07/01/2022)
A team of archaeologists from the University of Manchester are excavating Arthur’s Stone, a tomb linked to the legendary King Arthur.
Ornate wooden sculpture unearthed at Chan Chan in Peru (Heritagedaily 07/01/2022)
Archaeologists have unearthed a wooden sculpture at Chan Chan, the Capital of the Chimú Kingdom.
Could a Neanderthal meditate? (Phys.org 06/30/2022)
Emiliano Bruner, a paleoneurologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), has led a study published in the journal Intelligence on how attention evolved in the human genus, which analyzes the paleontological and archaeological evidence that might shed light on the attentional capacity of extinct hominins.