In the excavations of the ancient city of Tripolis in Denizli, a 1500 year old stone cutting workshop, metal saw parts and an inscription containing orders were found.
This remarkable fossilized snail features a 9 millimeter long, 3.1 millimeter high shell, with lines of stiff, tiny hairs, each between 150 and 200 micrometers long.
At the location of the final Mayan stronghold in Guatemala, human burial grounds and Spanish pistol bullet fragments were discovered.
During the Cretaceous era, the Chicxulub asteroid wiped off the dinosaurs and the majority of Earth’s species.
Researchers identified a rare baby mummy as the firstborn son of an Austrian count, and rickets may have contributed to the child’s death.
Archaeologists working to repair ISIS damage in Iraq discover Assyrian reliefs not seen in millennia. The rock carvings in northern Iraq are thought to date back about 2,700 years.
