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Feb 28, 2006

Remains of Worldâ€™s Oldest Ships Found in Egypt

Excavations at an ancient Egyptian shipyard have unearthed remains of the world's oldest seafaring ships. The 4,000-year-old timbers were found alongside equally ancient cargo boxes, anchors, coils of rope and other naval materials just as old, at what archaeologists are calling a kind of ancient military administration site. The massive...

Jan 31, 2006

Greek Shipwreck from 350 BC Revealed

The remains of an ancient Greek cargo ship that sank more than 2,300 years ago have been uncovered with a deep-sea robot, archaeologists announced today. The ship was carrying hundreds of ceramic jars of wine and olive oil and went down off Chios and the Oinoussai islands in the eastern...

Nov 30, 2007

Top 10 weird ways we deal with the dead

Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal With the Dead (Image credit: Çatalhöyük Research Project)Dying is a fact of life, as is the disposal of a body after the fact. You know all about burial and cremation, but here are the other ways people, past and present- have dealt with the...

Jun 30, 2007

Hidden City Found Beneath Alexandria

The legendary city of Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great as he swept through Egypt in his quest to conquer the known world. Now scientists have discovered hidden underwater traces of a city that existed at Alexandria at least seven centuries before Alexander the Great arrived, findings hinted at...

Oct 31, 2008

Grave Reveals Violent Death of Ancient Family

A grave with the remains of a mother and father huddled together with two sons has been dated to 4,600 years ago and marks the oldest genetic evidence for a nuclear family, researchers say. The individuals were carefully arranged in their graves to denote they were part of a biological...

Sep 30, 2008

Bones Reveal Oldest Case of TB

An excavated skeleton of a Neolithic woman and an infant buried with her show signs of tuberculosis, making them the oldest known TB cases confirmed with DNA, researchers announced today. The 9,000-year-old bones were found submerged about six miles off the coast of Haifa, Israel, in the eastern Mediterranean Sea,...

May 31, 2008

Neanderthals Were High-Tech For Their Era

Neanderthal tools found in England suggest our early human relatives hunted with blades and spear tips that were pretty sophisticated, rivaling those made by modern humans, a new analysis suggests. The research, however, has not been published in a peer-reviewed journal. Neanderthals inhabited the plains of Europe and parts of...

Sep 30, 2009

Ancient Rome's Real Population Revealed

The first century B.C. was one of the most culturally rich in the history of the Roman Empire — the age of Cicero, Caesar and Virgil. But as much as historians know about the great figures of this period of ancient Rome, they know very little about some basic facts,...

Sep 30, 2009

Evidence Alexander the Great Wasn't First at Alexandria

The latest clues that settlements existed in the area for several hundred years before Alexander the Great come from microscopic bits of pollen and charcoal in ancient sediment layers. Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. The city sits on the Mediterranean coast at the western edge...

Jun 30, 2009

Buried City in Oasis Lends View of Ancient Egypt

A trench that was cut through collapsed mud bricks and the compacted debris of buildings leveled centuries ago is revealing a dusty scene of roof-topped streets in ancient Amheida, a city marooned on an oasis deep in Egypt’s western desert. The latest in a chain of archaeological discoveries in a...

May 31, 2009

Ancient Mummy's Face Recreated

The face of a long-dead mummy has been brought back to life through forensic science. Based on CT-scans of the skull of the ancient Egyptian mummy Meresamun, two artists independently reconstructed her appearance and arrived at similar images of the woman. Meresamun, a temple singer in Thebes (ancient Luxor) at...

Jun 30, 2010

Ancient Hunting Weapon Discovered in Melting Ice

What looked like a small branch that blew off a tree during a storm turned out to be an ancient wooden hunting weapon wielded by Paleo Indians. The 10,000-year-old atlatl dart was discovered in a melting patch of ice high in the Rocky Mountains close to Yellowstone National Park. The...

Jan 31, 2010

Do Technology and Romance Mix?

This Valentines Day, technology will allow couples to express their feelings for each other in more ways than ever before – but that's not necessarily a good thing, love experts say. Services such as instant messaging (IM), text messaging (SMS), multimedia messaging (MMS), Blackberry messaging (BBM) are a convenient way...

Oct 31, 2011

Sex of Egyptian Child Mummy Remains a Mystery

A 2,000-year-old child mummy visited an Illinois hospital earlier this year so researchers could use imaging technology to look for clues to the child's life and death. A computed tomography, or CT, scan, conducted in March, revealed a few tantalizing tidbits: a delicate facial structure; the wads of cloth that...

Oct 31, 2011

Pocahontas Drank Here (But You Wouldn't Want To)

This Research in Action article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. It's the Year of Our Lord 1609. John Smith has left the Virginia Colony's two-year-old settlement at Jamestown to return to England. The natives have only enough food to feed their own population and...