Marble of ancient Greek statue traced to its likely origin
5 October 2021
The marble Colossus of the Naxians on the Greek island of Delos once stood about 9 metres tall, but is now in pieces in the British Museum and Greece
-
Subject
-
Section
-
Type
-
Topics
-
Author
-
Issue
-
Premium
Mass graves found on Scottish islands may be ancient tsunami victims
30 July 2018
A rare tsunami may have struck the islands of Shetland and Orkney off the UK’s north coast 5500 years ago, killing dozens of people who had to be hastily buried
Stone Age bakers made first bread thousands of years before farming
16 July 2018
Evidence of the first early bread suggests humans were baking with wheat and oats thousands of years before they began farming the cereals
Record temperatures mean ancient forts become visible in fields
11 July 2018
When the ground is baked by days of sun, markings that indicate the location of ancient settlements begin to emerge in the parched terrain
The first Americans had pet dogs 1000 years earlier than thought
18 June 2018
There were domestic dogs in North America 10,200 years ago, according to a re-examination of an ancient dog skeleton that looks like a small English setter
Harsh: Europe's cannabis died just as the first farmers arrived
17 May 2018
Cannabis – the source of the drug marijuana – virtually disappeared from Europe just as farmers arrived, so they didn’t get the chance to grow it for another 4500 years
Ancient humans in Philippines may have given rise to ‘hobbits’
2 May 2018
A butchered rhino found on the island of Luzon shows early humans were living in the Philippines 709,000 years ago, which may explain the origins of the diminutive Homo floresiensis
Ancient finger bone may reveal humanity's path out of Africa
9 April 2018
A single bone found in the Saudi Arabian desert is at least 85,000 years old, and may shed light on the route early humans took out of Africa
Lost villages from centuries ago found in the Amazon rainforest
27 March 2018
Even some of the more remote parts of the Amazon rainforest, far from major rivers, were once densely populated – centuries before the arrival of Europeans
Neanderthals ambushed cave bears as they awoke from hibernation
26 March 2018
Our extinct cousins the Neanderthals seem to have targeted cave bears, which were normally intimidating foes, while they were sleepy and weak from hibernating through the winter
