This gold ring featuring an engraving of Venus Victrix found in Pacé, Brittany, France. ©Emmanuelle Collado/INRAP French archaeologists have discovered artifacts and sites spanning multiple centuries, from
Historically, wasabi holds a significant place in Japan, as evidenced by the discovery of the word “wasabi” on excavated artifacts dating back approximately 1,400 years. Moreover, culinary texts from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries mention its uses in cooking. Its traditional role as...
Greek archaeologists recently uncovered a trove of ancient artifacts while exploring the lost city of Tenea, which legend suggests was built some 3,000 years ago by Trojan prisoners of war. More than two dozen silver coins and remnants of an important primeval aqueduct were among the discoveries ...
A surprising proportion (15%) of cloaks were found to contain feathers from different geographic locations, providing evidence of kiwi trading among M膩ori tribes or organized hunting trips into other tribal areas. Our data also suggest that the east of the North Island of New Zealand was the ...
the Y-chromosomal geneUTYand one 2-bp insertion–deletion polymorphism in theZFYintron 5, distinguish two haplogroups: Y1, primarily found in Northern Europe, and Y2, mainly distributed in Southern Europe [80]. Detection of the Y1 haplogroup in ancient cattle and aurochs from Northern and ...
12. Ancient Egyptian Artifacts in the Grand Canyon Egyptian artifacts Grand Canyon Mystery This is one of the most curious and interesting myths, or assumptions, that I found and although it lacks practically all support, only thinking about such an idea leaves us open-mouthed. At question, the...
Egypt has strict laws governing its antiquities and archaeological resources, but a black market for artifacts still exists. Sometimes objects that were illegally excavated get disguised in the legal market, but they can be difficult to identify. A recent Live Science investigation of U.S. Census ...
The original depositional context at Chokhopani was destroyed by the installation of a micro-hydro pipeline. Data recovery was limited to the collection of artifacts and human remains that were discovered in the cave complex or were found downslope from it46. The Suila site was discovered in 201...
The entry to the Royal B.C. Museum’s latest blockbuster exhibit, Stonehenge, which opens today and runs through to Jan. 5, is a fitting introduction to the more than 400 artifacts on display from the UNESCO World Heritage Site. The travelling exhibit from England is coming from a sti...
As tourism and air travel boomed in the latter half of the 20th century, the fishponds were filled to build ocean-front housing, or dredged out to create marinas. By the 1980s, the ponds were abandoned artifacts, grown over with invasive mangroves, partially filled with mud, their walls ...