On the 2023 New Year’s Honours list, three museum scientists received awards
Elif Duluk
Three Museum scientists, Professor Chris Stringer, Dr. Sandra Knapp and Dr. Richard Fortey, were honored in the 2023 New Year’s Honor List.
Month: December 2022
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Dating to around 3.6 billion years ago, the Pilbara region of Western Australia is home to the fossilized evidence of the Earth’s oldest lifeforms
Dilek Yazıcı
The Pilbara began to form more than 3.6 billion years ago and its vast landscape of deep pindan reds panoramas is an ancient place.
Amazing live fossils called triops from the time of the dinosaurs discovered in Arizona
Adar Leibovitch recently photographed a colony of prehistoric triops, that has survived for hundreds of millions of years.
In America, oldest known projectile points
Ahmet Mengüç
Oregon State University archaeologists have found a collection of projectile points that date from around 15,700 years ago.
Scientists discover the oldest evidence of a dinosaur Microraptor devouring a mammal
A recent study indicates that the fossilized bones of the Microraptor, a bird-like predatory dinosaur, researchers discovered its last meal.
Mysterious bones found in a European swamp may have been used in rituals
Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient skeleton that may be the remains of a rituals that took place more than 5,000 years ago.
20 ancient tombs discovered in Egypt
The country’s tourism ministry revealed on Monday that 20 ancient tombs as old as 660 BC had been discovered in Egypt’s Nile delta.
Jewish heritage revived: Kemeraltı synagogues in Izmir to reopen as museum
Built by Sephardic Jews, Kemeraltı synagogues quarter of the Aegean province of Izmir will soon welcome visitors as an open-air museum.
Researchers from Japan discover 168 Nazca geoglyphs
In Nazca, Peru, researchers unearthed 168 more ancient geoglyphs, which are pictures formed by lines painted across areas.
The debate that human ancestors began bipedalism due to foraging in trees
In an unexpected development, learning to walk on land may not have had any role in the genesis of human bipedalism.
