8+ hour, 13+ min ago  (497+ words) That's not some sort of metaphor or epithet. Apparently, there really were Stone Age dentists: Neanderthals used stone drills to treat cavities almost 60, 000 years ago in what is the earliest known evidence of dental treatment. The single molar, which was…...

1+ hour, 1+ min ago  (266+ words) More than 100 artefacts never before shown in North America will go on display at San Francisco's de Young Museum. More than 100 ancient Egyptian artefacts that have never previously been displayed in North America are set to go on view in…...

8+ hour, 36+ min ago  (226+ words) Their uniforms are just so. The nurses' caps are pristine white. The slouch hats sit exactly at the right jaunty angle. In the early hours of May 14, 1943, the Centaur was off the coast of Queensland when it was hit by…...

2+ hour, 15+ min ago  (177+ words) When the experienced rock carving hunter Tormod Fjeld was driving his daughter Ada to a nearby location, the two of them decided to take a closer look beneath Kols'stoppen, a hill in B'rum, Eastern Norway. That was when they found…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (602+ words) Hidden in a narrow gully high in the hills of central Scotland, a small stone bothy once served as a secret whisky distillery. Now archaeologists working at Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve have uncovered rare physical evidence tied to Scotland's…...

9+ hour, 39+ min ago  (57+ words) All Israel News Two Armies. Same Valley. Two Completely Different Endings. At Mount Gilboa, King Saul fell. But before him, Gideon stood here'and won. Both were afraid. Both faced overwhelming odds. Only one chose obedience. The difference wasn't the battlefield…...

5+ hour, 36+ min ago  (394+ words) A historic garden tucked away in the ruins of Pompeii has opened once again, offering a colorful look into daily life nearly 2, 000 years ago. Known as the Garden of Hercules, this restored space in Pompeii now blooms with thousands of…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (742+ words) The New Indian Express Digging up a nation The Dig is, at its surface, a book about archaeology. But Ashok, a senior journalist who has covered Tamil Nadu for years, quickly establishes that the ground at Keeladi is contested territory'a…...

3+ hour, 6+ min ago  (514+ words) In our research in the British Library's medieval collections, we have identified a previously unnoticed document that provides fresh insights into the survivors of the outbreak of plague known as the Black Death (134653)....

9+ hour, 25+ min ago  (225+ words) A doctor carrying his professional tools was among those caught while trying to flee the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. This discovery at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii comes more than sixty years after the excavation of the Orto…...