13+ hour, 49+ min ago  (316+ words) Yahoo - A new study announced the discovery of a massive, previously unknown settlement in Georgia, spread across 168 separate sites containing settlements, fortresses, and graveyards. - Monumental cyclopean fortresses built from large, unworked basalt blocks without mortar or concrete were found within…...

21+ hour, 2+ min ago  (351+ words) Visitors at Pompeii can expect entirely new visual insights into life at the time of the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, thanks to the use of AI to reconstruct both the appearance of victims and their final moments....

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (216+ words) Archaeologists using radiocarbon dating have found evidence that the Rongorongo writing system on Easter Island may have been invented independently of European influence, potentially representing the latest original creation of script in human history, according to Popular Mechanics. A study…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (345+ words) Archaeologists in Switzerland feel like they are on a roll after their latest discovery while excavating a housing development - a full loaf of Roman bread. Researchers digging in the town of Windisch, on the south-western edge of the Roman legionary…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (34+ words) Archaeologists and researchers at the ancient Roman site of Pompeii have used artificial intelligence for the first time to digitally reconstruct the face of a man killed in the AD 79 eruption of Moun. .....

3+ day, 17+ min ago  (16+ words) Experts now believe the kiln found under a primary school dates from the late medieval period....

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (725+ words) A spectacular brass astrolabe - or a hand-held astronomical computer - from the 17th Century, once part of the royal collection of Jaipur city in western India, will go under the hammer at Sotheby's in London on 29 April. The object is "perhaps the…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (140+ words) An historic grave dedication took place Saturday in Wyoming County. The Daughters of the American Revolution received a grant from the Endless Mountains Visitors Bureau to restore the Marcy Cemetery along Sunnyside Road in Tunkhannock Township. Those restorations included the…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago  (1055+ words) But what type of a relationship with a medieval person does a shared DNA fragment imply? It turns out, not too much that will help with your family roots research. We are population geneticists who work with ancient DNA. We…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (38+ words) Yahoo A rare 15th-century royal document from Louis XI's court was identified using advanced imaging after it went unnoticed for years in a University of Toronto collection....