Archaeologists have revealed their on the ruins of a 1,500-year-old Mayan village during construction of an industrial park on Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula, complete with palaces, pyramids, and plazas.
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Restoration work continues in Shusha, the cultural center of Azerbaijan
Restoration work on historical and cultural structures in Shusha, Azerbaijan’s cultural center, continues.
Renovated Bodrum Castle was flooded with visitors
In the first five months of this year, more than 50 thousand tourists visited Bodrum Castle, which was rebuilt thanks to restoration work carried out by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Bodrum.
One of our earliest ancestors was discovered in Caithness cemetery as an ancient fish
According to researchers, a 390 million-year-old fish discovered in a Caithness graveyard is one of the early relatives of four-limbed mammals, including humans.
Stonehenge’s builders lives revealed through parasitic poop
Prehistoric poop discovered near Stonehenge sheds light on the pets, parties, and dodgy diets of the Neolithic monument’s builders.
Plankton’s endurance to prior global warming events is revealed by the discovery of “ghost” fossils.
An multinational team of experts from the Natural History Museum, UCL (University College London), the University of Florence, and the Swedish Museum of Natural History discovered a unique sort of fossilisation that had previously gone unnoticed.
The ‘ghost’ fossils are imprints of coccolithophores, which are single-celled plankton. Their discovery is altering our understanding of how climate change affects plankton in the oceans.
For the first time, an 8,600-year-old flute was displayed
A program was organized by the Bilecik Museum Directorate on the occasion of the 18 May International Museum Day. The finds unearthed in the Bahçelievler and Gedikkaya excavations in Bilecik, were opened to visitors.
Phoenician Necropolis discovered in Southern Spain in Iberian Peninsula
Workers in southern Spain renovating water supply discovered a “exceptional” and well-preserved necropolis of subterranean limestone vaults where the Phoenicians who resided on the Iberian peninsula 2,500 years ago buried their dead.
Dinosaur fossil dating back 125 mln years discovered in north China
Researchers have discovered a nearly complete dinosaur fossil dating from about 125 million years ago in northern China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Genetic Origins of Earth’s First Farmers Confirmed
The earliest farmers came from a combination of two hunter-gatherer populations during a volatile period, not from a single group as one might imagine.