Posted Fri Feb 5, 2010 04:47 PM ET | 0
Boa Senior died last week, ending ancient Andaman culture Alok Das/ Survival International A tribal language thought to have existed for 65,000 years has disappeared forever in India's Andaman Islands, taken to the grave with its last speaker.... Read more
Posted Wed Feb 3, 2010 03:00 PM ET | 0
A site in Luxor, Egypt will become one of the world's largest open-air museums when part of a $11 million project is complete in March, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) said today in a statement. Excavation work along the ... Read more
Posted Mon Feb 1, 2010 12:08 PM ET | 0
One of history's greatest mysteries -- the family lineage of the boy pharaoh King Tut -- may soon be solved. Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, has announced on Sunday he would hold a press conference on ... Read more
Posted Fri Jan 29, 2010 04:23 AM ET | 0
The long-sought aqueduct that delivered fresh, clean water to Rome nearly 2,000 years ago, is found beneath a pig pasture northwest of the Italian city. Read more
Posted Tue Jan 19, 2010 03:56 PM ET | 0
A limestone statue of the cat goddess Bastet discovered in Alexandria, Egypt. Photo: courtesy of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. The remains of a 2,200-year-old temple dedicated to an ancient Egyptian cat goddess have been discovered by... Read more
Posted Fri Jan 15, 2010 03:50 PM ET | 0
Recently, new satellite imagery detected a hidden kingdom in the Amazon that had eluded explorers for nearly 500 years. An aerial picture of traces of earthworks built by a lost Amazonian civilisation. Denise Schaan Some called it El Dorado, others,... Read more
Posted Mon Jan 11, 2010 01:02 PM ET | 0
These are the remains of the earliest building ever found in Tel Aviv, according to Israel's Antiquities Authority. Located on the northern bank of the Yarkon River, the building consists of at least three rooms and it is believed to ... Read more
Posted Mon Jan 11, 2010 03:54 AM ET | 0
Linothorax, a highly effective type of body armor, was created by laminating together layers of linen. Read more
Posted Fri Jan 8, 2010 09:07 AM ET | 0
Alexander The Great Wear patterns on one of the most celebrated mosaics of antiquity have allowed researchers to reconstruct exactly how ancient Romans viewed the artwork. Found during the 1831 excavations in the lava-buried town of Pompeii, the... Read more
Posted Mon Jan 4, 2010 11:44 AM ET | 0
An Egyptian team led by Dr. Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, has unearthed the largest tomb yet discovered in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, also known as the "City of the Dead." Filled with skeletons, coffins ... Read more
Posted Mon Dec 28, 2009 03:34 PM ET | 0
Shuo Cao Cao, Cao Cao jiu dao, says a Chinese proverb. It means: "Speak of Cao Cao, and Cao Cao will be there." It's the equivalent of the English phrase "speak of the devil." More than 1,700 years after his ... Read more
Posted Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:31 AM ET | 0
Nativity cribs bask in festive glory these days. A collection of 165 nativity scenes from all over the world is on display at the Sala del Bramante in Piazza del Popolo in Rome until mid-January. The exhibit tells the history ... Read more
Posted Mon Dec 21, 2009 03:00 PM ET | 0
A huge winter solstice feast might have taken place around Stonehenge some 4,500 years ago. STONEHENGE THEORIES Located in the county of Wiltshire, at the center of England's densest complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments, Stonehenge consists... Read more
Posted Thu Dec 17, 2009 05:01 AM ET | 0
An international team of researchers has found fragments of a burial shroud that cast serious doubt on the Turin shroud, the controversial linen cloth venerated by many Catholics as the proof that Christ was resurrected from the grave. The Shroud ... Read more
Posted Mon Dec 14, 2009 05:54 PM ET | 0
France has handed over to Egypt five fragments of an ancient wall painting that were kept in storage at the Louvre museum in Paris. President Nicolas Sarkozy presented today one of the slabs to his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak, ending ... Read more
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