The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released 20 pages of training materials concerning the collection, processing, and analysis of biological evidence following fatal aviation accidents. The…
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Larry W. Bryant was a UFO researcher, writer, and government transparency advocate who pursued federal records through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). His work…
Read MoreNOVGOROD, RUSSIA—According to a Live Science report, a piece of a large wild boar's tusk adorned with an engraved metal cap has been uncovered in northwestern Russia, in an area of the city of Veliky Novgorod that was inhabited by wealthy individuals during the medieval period. The tusk has been dated to the mid-twelfth to…
Tomb, Saqqara, Egypt CAIRO, EGYPT—Three rock-cut tombs dated to the New Kingdom period (ca. 1550–1070 B.C.) have been discovered at the Bubasteion Necropolis in Saqqara, Ahram Online reports. Amr El-Tayeb, director of the Saqqara Archaeological Site, said that carvings on the wall of the first tomb reveal that it belonged to an official named Mentuhotep,…
YEREVAN, ARMENIA—More than 600 miles of water-management features have been identified in Armenia at the site of the Urartian city of Argishtikhinili using satellite imagery and digital terrain models, according to a Science in Poland report. Nazarij Buławka and Krzysztof Jakubiak of the University of Warsaw and Inessa Karapetyan of the National Academy of Sciences…
Liubo game board SHAANXI PROVINCE, CHINA—Two Liubo game boards carved into square bricks have been found in two Han Dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 220) tombs in Xi’an, an ancient capital city in central China, according to The Greek Reporter. The rules of the game are not completely understood, but each player is thought to have controlled…
CAIRO, EGYPT—ZME Science reports that Zeinab Hashesh of Beni Suef University and her colleagues examined the bones of six individuals who were buried underneath the pyramids of Dahshur some 4,000 years ago. Four of them were daughters of Pharaoh Amenemhat II, identified as the Princesses Ita, Khenmet, Itaweret, and possibly Sathathormeryt. The other two individuals…
Fossils from Queensland suggest a newly recognized marsupial order may have survived in Australia for around 35 million years, rewriting part of the story of how the continent's unique mammals evolved. The discovery challenges the idea that Australia's marsupials all came from a single straightforward ancestral lineage.
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK—An international team of researchers have analyzed teeth from 152 formerly enslaved Africans whose remains were unearthed on the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena in 2007 and 2008 ahead of a construction project, according to a Live Science report. After the slave trade was outlawed in the British Empire in 1807, some 27,000…
Excavated foundations of a barracks at the Fort Anne National Historic Site, Novia Scotia, Canada NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA—The Annapolis Valley Register reports that the foundations of a barracks built by the British in 1752 have been uncovered at Nova Scotia’s Fort Anne National Historic Site. The fort was constructed by Scottish settlers in 1629 to…
SHAANXI, CHINA—According to a statement released by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qiaomei Fu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his colleagues analyzed genomes obtained from 169 sets of human remains unearthed at Shimao, a Neolithic site in northwestern China, and the surrounding area. Occupied between 4,200 and 3,700 years ago, Shimao covered nearly…
TALLINN, ESTONIA—Estonian Public Radio reports that a well-preserved fourteenth-century papal seal, or bulla, belonging to Pope Clement V was unearthed in Tallinn, Estonia’s capital city on the shore of the Baltic Sea. Archaeologist Mihkel Tammet of Muinasprojekt said that the bulla was found in a medieval layer that also contained ceramics and other artifacts. He…
