News tagged with artifacts
New insights into the life of the Maya
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancient artifacts are almost always concerned with rich and powerful religious and political leaders, but new excavations of an ancient Maya site have unearthed a pyramid decorated with murals ...
Team tracks infamous conquistador through southeast
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Archaeologists at Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History have discovered unprecedented evidence that helps map Hernando de Soto's journey through the Southeast in 1540. No evidence of De Soto's path ...
NASA Announces Screening of Space Shuttle Artifacts
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2009 |
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NASA is inviting eligible educational institutions, museums and other organizations to begin registering to screen potential space shuttle artifacts.
Japanese help uncover ancient Peru remains
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 10, 2009 |
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A joint Japanese-Peruvian archeological mission has uncovered the remains of a pre-Incan woman sacrificed more than 2,000 years ago in the Andean nation, experts told local media Wednesday.
Gulf exploration yields evidence of raw materials used by early Americans
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 31, 2009 |
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In one of the more dramatic moments of an underwater archaeological survey co-led by Mercyhurst College archaeologist James Adovasio along Florida's Gulf Coast this summer, Andy Hemmings stood on an inundated ...
Ancient Humans Left Evidence from the Party that Ended 4,000 Years Ago
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The party was over more than 4,000 years ago, but the remnants still remain in the gourds and squashes that served as dishware. For the first time, University of Missouri researchers have ...
Intact ancient tomb uncovered in Bethlehem
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Workers renovating a house in the traditional town of Jesus' birth accidentally discovered an untouched ancient tomb containing clay pots, plates, beads and the bones of two humans, a Palestinian ...
China plans new terracotta warrior excavation
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- China plans to excavate more of the life-size terracotta warriors at the famed ancient tomb of the country's first emperor.
eBay has unexpected, chilling effect on looting of antiquities, archaeologist finds
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Having worked for 25 years at fragile archaeological sites in Peru, UCLA archaeologist Charles "Chip" Stanish held his breath when the online auction house eBay launched more than a decade ...
Indus script encodes language, reveals new study of ancient symbols
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Rosetta Stone allowed 19th century scholars to translate symbols left by an ancient civilization and thus decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
New technology for dating ancient rock paintings
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 11, 2009 |
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A new dating method finally is allowing archaeologists to incorporate rock paintings — some of the most mysterious and personalized remnants of ancient cultures — into the tapestry of evidence used to study life in prehistoric ...
Physicist Uses Radio Signals to Search Downtown Las Vegas for Signs of Ancient Pit Houses
Feb 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using radio signals instead of shovels, a physics faculty member from Ithaca College, along with local archeologists, has found evidence of additional 1,300-year-old pit houses five miles from the Las Vegas ...
