Two-million-year-old fossils were recently discovered in the Petrified Forest on the Greek island of Lesvos, indicating that horses, cattle, deer, and antelope formerly grazed its green slopes.
Author: Elif Duluk
The first people of Izmir were using these tools for sewing
In the excavations carried out in the Yeşilova Mound, where the first settlers of the city lived, in the Bornova district of Izmir city in Turkey, bone needles dating back 8,200 years were found.
Turkey’s enormous Roman Sidamara sarcophagus features the head of Eros once again
The Victoria & Albert Museum has sent a life-sized marble head of Eros back to Turkey. The 3rd century Sidamara Sarcophagus is one of the biggest, heaviest, and most significant Roman sarcophagi ever discovered. V&A conservators traveled with the head and collaborated with specialists from the Istanbul Archaeological Museum to reattach it to the lid.
The mysterious Pılır Mound will shed light on the oldest periods of Anatolia
Dr. Lecturer Ümit Çayır said that with the new archaeological studies to be carried out on the Pılır mound, important information about the oldest periods of Sivas can be reached.
A 2,200-year-old statue of Alexander the Great has been discovered in Alexandria
The Cairo Ministry of Antiquities has uncovered a statue of Alexander the Great within a historic “residential and commercial zone” in Alexandria, which they think was a commerce hub during the Ptolemaic period.
This 50,000-Year-Old Giant Kangaroo Isn’t Even Related to Australian Kangaroos
A strange enormous kangaroo roamed the steep jungles of New Guinea long ago, practically until the end of the last ice age. According to new studies, this kangaroo was not closely linked to present Australian kangaroos. Rather, it is a previously unknown species of primitive kangaroo found only in New Guinea.
The first prayer beads unearthed in medieval Britain
The beads, which were found on the island of Lindisfarne, date from the 8th to 9th century AD and are made from salmon vertebrae.
What triggered the last ice age may have been found
Two mysteries have been a head-scratcher for many paleoclimate experts: Where did the last ice age’s ice sheets come from, and how did they grow so fast? These puzzles may have been clarified by a recent study that was published in Nature Geoscience and offered an answer. These results could potentially be used to understand previous glacial epochs.
In Canada, a 66-million-year-old smooth-shelled turtle fossil was discovered
A virtually complete skeleton of the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) animal Leiochelys tokaryki has been discovered. Tim Tokaryk, a former curator of paleontology at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, is honored with the new turtle species’ name.
Fragrance culture of ancient civilizations
The 8th anniversary of World Fragrance Day will be celebrated in Şanlıurfa, the only place in the world where black rose grows. The “Mesopotamia Exhibit on the Trace of Smell” opens on World Fragrance Day, as a result of the 3-year study to which academics and archaeologists contributed in collaboration with the Şanlıurfa Archeology Museum and the Fragrance Culture Association.