Archaeologists in China have found what they say is the world’s oldest known coin manufacturing site. Used to make metal money around 2,600 years ago, the bronze casting workshop was located in the ancient city of Guanzhuang, in what’s now central China’s Henan Province, reports state-...
They compared this tea to residues unearthed among burial artifacts at Gurgyam Cemetery in Tibet, and dated to about the second or third century AD. This revealed that tea was already transported from China to central Asia and the Tibetan Plateau several hundred years earlier than previously recor...
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In the tomb, along with the bodies, were a horse bit made of wood, a whip, a bow and a battle-axe. These artifacts along with the cut of the pants, suggest the trousers were created and worn to allow for easier horse riding over long periods of time. They also suggest that trouser...
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researchers have found the remains of deer, boar, birds, tortoises and fish in these caves. The most significant finds, however, were human artifacts, including broken pieces of pottery, estimated to have been fired at temperatures as high as 500 deg C, and tools made from stones, bones and...
Allwood found the shapes, the weathering and mostly the interior layers of the structures didn’t fit with this type of fossil, called stromatolites. Then she used a version of an instrument that’s being sent to Mars in a few years to create a chemical map of the structure. It didn’...
Reports that a group of scientists, who were appraising artifacts in the Hebei Provincial Museum at Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China, found a quarter-inch thick copper place which contains the world's oldest map. Description and age of map; Comments from Du Naisong, a researcher with the ...
with the goal of identifying a debris field. Several artifacts were observed, including iron fasteners, and fragments of copper sheathing and hull timber, some with adhering sheathing tacks. When plotted, their distribution formed a “fan” of shipwreck material that increased in size as it extende...
No artifacts were found at the site, nor weresigns of human occupation. "We think this fossil was outside with other fauna and flora, and during the rainy season, rain washed it into the cave," Shackelford said. "In subsequent seasons, more sediment washed into the cave and covered it....