Research
Ken Follett returns with an epic on building Stonehenge in 2500 BCE
Follett spent six months on research, distilled it into a fifty page exposé checked by historians before expanding it into the 704 page saga of Seft and Joia hauling monoliths across the great plain.
2,000-year-old Roman brooch found by detectorist
Daily Mail report sparks online sleuths to dissect new Roswell video - evidence or elaborate hoax?
Scientists reconstruct face of 900-year-old woman from churchyard skull
Study: Petting your cat sends an oxytocin wave through both of you
A cat's low-frequency purr can lower human heart rate and blood pressure, studies find.
Thirty-year quest unearths Clan MacDonald castle that defied Scottish and English crowns
The Lords of the Isles turned Finlaggan into a power base, controlling the Hebrides, Argyll, and parts of the northwest Highlands.
Researchers crack 6,000-year riddle of Armenia’s Dragon Stones at Mount Ararat
Radiocarbon dating of 46 organic samples from Tirinkatar shows two vishaps were set up circa 4200–4000 BC during the chalcolithic period.
From desert patrol to tomb guard: Ancient Egyptian police used bone whistles in Akhenaten’s capital
The discovery is the first known bone whistle from ancient Egypt and may have been used by Medjay police to supervise tomb workers, says a study in the international journal of osteoarcheology.
Peruvian team finds 12-million-year-old near-perfect dolphin ancestor
The Ocucaje Desert, often labeled a great hotel for marine animals because of calm conditions that once prevailed there, has long served as a cemetery for ancient species.
When the Aegean was meadow, not sea - New mapping traces Homo sapiens’ Turkey detour
“During the Pleistocene Ice Age, sea levels were ~100m lower, turning today’s peninsulas and islands into a land bridge connecting Anatolia with southeastern Europe.”
Rare human statue unearthed at Göbeklitepe
Found between structures B and D with an intact head and torso but missing feet, the figure may illuminate neolithic rituals, excavation head Karul notes.
Sunken Ptolemaic harbor near Alexandria revives hunt for Cleopatra's lost tomb
“After 2,000 years, no one has ever been there. We are the first,” said archaeologist Kathleen Martinez, citing the harbor’s link to Taposiris Magna as a decisive clue.
Israeli breakthrough in diamond tech open doors to faster, reliable quantum devices
Israeli and German scientists announced the development of a method to capture nearly all the light emitted by microscopic defects in diamonds - an advance that could make quantum devices faster.
Scientists found a 3.5-meter dolphin fossil in a desert that was once an ancient ocean
The fossil, discovered in July, measures three and a half meters and will undergo exhaustive analysis before public display.
Why this small dinosaur from Mongolia is rewriting the story of dome-headed evolution
Dated to about 108 million years ago, the fossil preserves roughly 90 percent of the skeleton, including the first pachycephalosaur hand and stomach stones.
