Teachers and students participating in the survey Peking University, May 24, 2011: PKU professors and students found the only remaining 11th-century Wudian...
In July, Machu Picchu, Peru’s biggest tourist attraction, will mark its 100th anniversary of rediscovery. Hiram Bingham III, a Yale professor, came upon...
“It would have made enough scampi to feed an army for a month.” Anomalocaridids (model pictured) grew a third longer and survived 30 million years...
ScienceDaily (May 26, 2011) — Fossils from so-called Peking man are extremely rare, as most of the finds disappeared during World War II. A unique discovery...
A satellite survey of Egypt has discovered 17 lost pyramids amongst thousands of tombs and ancient settlements. Scientists made the discovery using infrared...
Some 347 items representing the art and culture of civilizations on the Arabian Peninsula from Paleolithic times to the early 20th century—when the...
On Oct. 24, 2010, Hurricane Richard transformed the landscape where I conduct archaeology in central Belize. Huge swaths of the tropical forest were flattened...
“Tool kit” may put Neanderthals in northern Russia—surviving later than thought. A hardy band of Neanderthals may have made a last stand for their...
