Thursday, October 8, 2026

Ancient Carving May Represent Nubian King

MISEEDA, SUDAN—According to the Greek Reporter, Joanna A. Ciesielska of the University of Warsaw and her colleagues think that a life-sized petroglyph at the site of Miseeda in northern Sudan may depict an ancient Kushite ruler. A church was built around the carving during the seventh century A.D., suggesting that the location continued to be…

Butchered Bones in Chile Dated to 13,000 Years Ago
Ancient Engineering

Butchered Bones in Chile Dated to 13,000 Years Ago

An archaeologist cleans an in situ gomphothere bone fragment during excavations in the basin of Chile's ancient Lake Tagua Tagua. TARRAGONA, SPAIN—Live Science reports that cut marks have been detected on the bones of gomphotheres recovered from the basin of central Chile's ancient Lake Tagua Tagua by researchers from the Catalan Institute for Human Paleoecology…

Scientists were wrong about this strange mammal for nearly 40 years

A beautifully preserved fossil from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert has solved a mystery that puzzled paleontologists for nearly 40 years. Tamirkhan balcarceli shows that zhelestids were not early relatives of modern placental mammals, despite having teeth that seemed to suggest they were. Instead, the rabbit-like animal belonged to a separate lineage of small Cretaceous mammals.

Clinker Ship Found in Germany’s Bay of Greifswald

WARSAW, POLAND—According to a Phys.org report, a 400-year-old shipwreck has been discovered in northern Germany’s Bay of Greifswald. The remnants of the vessel were identified in 2023 during work to prepare for the construction of an underwater gas pipeline. A rescue team of five archaeologists, including Michał Grabowski of the University of Warsaw, completed 22…

Young People Were on the Move in Bronze Age Greece

GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN—Analysis of 199 skeletons uncovered at several archaeological sites in central and southern Greece indicates that young people were more likely to migrate between communities during the Bronze Age, according to a statement released by the University of Gothenburg. It had been previously suggested that young women were more likely to move out of…

Pyramid-Shaped Tomb Unearthed in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis

CAIRO, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a pyramid-shaped tomb dated to the late third or early fourth century A.D. has been unearthed at the site of Bir Al-Shaghala in the Dakhleh Oasis by archaeologists from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. Bir Al-Shaghala was part of the necropolis of Mothis, the oasis' capital during the Ptolemaic and…