Reconstruction of Calpeia: A Gibraltar Woman Who Lived in circa 5400 BC
A fascinating project from the Gibraltar National Museum has culminated in the facial reconstruction of ‘Calpeia’ – the name given to a Gibraltar woman who…
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Eerie 9,000-year-old stone mask discovered in a field in Israel
A 9000-year-old stone mask – with a sharp nose and eerie oval-shaped holes for eyes – has been found at an archaeological site close to…
Eurasian Yamna invasion possibly ‘wiped out’ the local men of the Iberian peninsula 4,500-years ago
Archaeological records have already proven how the Neolithic age and Early Bronze Age was known to have their fair share of human conflicts and massacres…
Earliest evidence of cheese making found in 7200-year-old pottery from Croatia
Pottery fragments recovered from the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia have pushed back the history of cheese making by nearly 4,000 years. According to an international…
3,900-year old Bronze Age settlement unearthed in Eskişehir, Turkey
Touted as the oldest known town in Eskişehir, in the historic Seyitgazi district, northwest Turkey, archaeologists have revealed the remnants of a Bronze Age settlement…
Rewriting the history of agriculture: Oldest bread that predated farming by 4,000 years found In Jordan
In a major archaeological discovery, researchers in northeastern Jordan have found the charred remains of what appears to the world’s oldest bread. Baked by hunter-gatherers…
Researchers reconstruct Avgi, a young girl from Neolithic Greece
Previously, we had covered the reconstruction of Ava, a young woman who lived around 3,700 years ago, in Achavanich, the northern tip of Scotland. Well,…
The mass grave in Germany that alludes to a Neolithic massacre 7,000-years ago
Back in 2006, archaeologists came across a 7,000-year-old mass grave, just 12 miles (around 20 kilometers) from Frankfurt in Germany. A reanalysis of the site…
Archaeologists tout the discovery of the ‘roots’ of ancient Mesopotamian civilization in southeastern Turkey
In the conventional scheme of things, Mesopotamia as a regional toponym relates to a conglomeration of areas from various modern-day nations, including Iraq, Syria and…
Researchers discover ‘House of the Dead’ barrow near the prehistoric Stonehenge
Researchers from the University of Reading have discovered what they call the ‘House of the Dead’ in Wiltshire, near the iconic prehistoric arrangement of Stonehenge….
