Many large charismatic mammals went extinct at the end of the Ice Age (approx 11,000 years ago), including the Steppe bison, Bison priscus. A recent find in Eastern Siberia has uncovered one of these bison, literally, frozen ...
Archaeology
Nov 6, 2014
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A mummy rolled down hospital hallways here on Sunday. Amen-Nestawy-Nakht, a 3,000-year-old Egyptian priest, was getting a CAT scan at Barnes-Jewish. It was probably his second. The lastonewas a couple of decades ago, when ...
Archaeology
Oct 15, 2014
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The public will soon get to see an ancient human skeleton recently rediscovered in a Philadelphia museum's storage room.
Archaeology
Aug 29, 2014
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He looks almost Byzantine or Greek, gazing doe-eyed over the viewer's left shoulder, his mouth forming a slight pout, like a star-struck lover or perhaps a fan of the races witnessing his favorite charioteer losing control ...
Archaeology
Aug 14, 2014
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Answers don't come easily when the mystery is 3,000 years old. Egyptologist Melinda Nelson-Hurst has spent two years researching the Egyptian artifacts that have resided at Tulane University since 1852. Her work is yielding ...
Archaeology
Aug 5, 2014
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The results of the "virtual autopsy" performed on a South American mummy from the collection of the Buffalo Museum of Science (BMS) are in, providing new insights into the life of the infant mummy. As part of the groundbreaking ...
Archaeology
Jun 18, 2014
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A group of students discovered a 7,000-year-old mummy during a trip to northern Chile, local media reported Monday.
Archaeology
May 26, 2014
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(Phys.org) —The study and popular perception of Egyptian antiquities focuses too much on the unwrapping of mummies and the use of technologies such as scanning, according to an academic from the University of East Anglia.
Archaeology
Apr 10, 2014
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Our fascination with mummies never gets old. Now the British Museum is using the latest technology to unwrap their ancient mysteries.
Archaeology
Apr 9, 2014
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From Egyptian mummies to Ötzi the Iceman, human remains are a common, if macabre, feature of museum exhibits. Writing in Clinical Anatomy, Dr. Philippe Charlier explores the argument that curators have an ethical obligation ...
Archaeology
Feb 4, 2014
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