Saturday, January 31, 2015

Google Earth Pro Is Now Available For Free

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Today  Google   GOOGL   +4.85%  has announced that  Google Earth Pro is now available for free . Google Earth Pro used to cost $399 per...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Anthropology: Ancient skull from Galilee cave offers clues to the first modern Europeans

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Interior of the Manot Cave in Israel's Galilee, where a 55,000-year-old skull sheds new light on human migration patterns. Th e dis...

Skull discovery suggests location where humans first had sex with Neanderthals

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Views of the human skull, with missing jaw, found in western Galilee, northern Isreal and estimated at 55,000 years old. Photograph: Tel ...

Found in Spain: traces of Hannibal's troops

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Spanish archaeology students have discovered a 2,200-year-old moat in what is now the Catalan town of Valls, filled with objects providing ...

Up Helly Aa, longship burning festival – in pictures

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Hundreds of costumed people carried flaming torches as they took to the streets of Shetland, in Scotland, during the annual Up Helly Aa f...

Archaeologists Excavate Pre-Roman Burials in Spain

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Pintia, Spain —At an archaeological site in north central Spain, an archaeological team has been uncovering prolific finds that testify t...

Scan finds new tattoos on 5300-year-old Iceman

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A new study has used advanced imaging techniques to identify previously unknown tattoos on the ribcage of the 5300-year old man known as...
Saturday, January 24, 2015

Scientists use X-rays to decipher charred Vesuvius scrolls

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David Blank, professor of Classics from University of California, left, uses his laptop computer as he studies an ancient papyrus at the ...
Friday, January 23, 2015

X-ray technique reads burnt Vesuvius scroll

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For the first time, words have been read from a burnt, rolled-up scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius in AD79. The scrolls of Herculaneum,...

Maybe Early Humans Weren't The First To Get A Good Grip

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An example of a human precision grip — grasping a first metacarpal from the thumb of a specimen of Australopithecus africanus that's t...
Monday, January 19, 2015

Hinkley Point C excavations unearth bones from the Dark Ages

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The burials date from the 7th Century A Dark Ages cemetery and more than 100 burials has been unearthed at the site of a new nuclear p...

Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers (Online Course)

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Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers (Online Course) Mon 26 Jan to Fri 17 Apr 2015 University of Oxford  Department of Con...

Excavation plans for Exeter's Roman Baths

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A set of "internationally significant" Roman Baths which lay hidden for almost 2,000 years could be opened to the public in a res...

Stone Age artefacts found in Norway's melting glaciers

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Around 7,000 years ago the Earth was enjoying a warm climate. Now glaciers and patches of perennial ice in the high mountains of Southern N...
Sunday, January 18, 2015

Excavation plans for Exeter's Roman Baths

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The Roman Baths were discovered in 1971 after excavating a Saxon burial ground A set of "internationally significant" Roman ...

Viking blacksmith found buried with his tools

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A well-stocked grave of a blacksmith from the Viking Age is one of the best finds in Norway last year, according to Norwegian archeologists...

Mysterious medieval fortifications buried in Poland detected with advanced imaging technology

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Archaeologists have discovered evidence of unknown medieval fortifications which may indicate the presence of Hussite clashes near a sma...
Friday, January 16, 2015

Bronze figure of Silenus found on Danish island

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A bronze figure representing the Greek figure Silenus, from the time of Rome's first emperor, Augustus, has been found on the south-eas...

Stone Age man wasn't necessarily more advanced than the Neanderthals

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A multi-purpose bone tool dating from the Neanderthal era has been discovered by University of Montreal researchers, throwing into ques...

"Extremely lucky" archaeologists find evidence of 15th century settlement near Northern Irish castle

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Scientific dating leads archaeologists to "extremely exciting" early settlement near ruined 13th century castle A post-ex...