Headlines read “Shipworms threaten to destroy Captain Cook’s HM Bark Endeavour,” which was wrecked off the US east coast in the late eighteenth century.  Read more Section:  News History & Archaeology History Famous People Read Later  Source: Ancient Origins

SOUTH EAST QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA—According to a statement released by Griffith University, a new experimental study suggests that Australia’s Indigenous communities may have used boomerangs made of hardwoods to shape the edges of stone tools. Research team member Paul Craft, a Birrunburra/Bundjalung/Yugambeh/Yuggera/Turrbal man, fashioned replica boomerangs for the study that were …

MÜNSTER, GERMANY—According to a statement released by Antiquity, Achim Lichtenberger of the University of Münster and Oren Tal of Tel Aviv University have dated the destruction of northern Israel’s Seleucid settlement of Tell Izṭabba to the spring of 107 B.C. Also known as Nysa-Scythopolis, the town was attacked by the …

Detailed, well-dated palaeoclimate and archaeological records are critical for understanding the impact of environmental change on human evolution. In new research, archaeologists from the University of Cape Town and elsewhere identified and described relict tufas — evidence of past flowing streams, waterfalls, and shallow pools — at the site of …

Engineers are preparing NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the launch of the Artemis I Mission on August 29. After completing the final tests, the SLS rocket and the Orion spacecraft have been transferred to the launch pad to undergo final checks. Click here for the updated launch timeline for the …

Under the north Atlantic ocean, researchers have found evidence of an asteroid impact crater measuring around 8.5 kilometers. The crater is buried 300-400m below the seabed 400km off the coast of Guinea, west Africa. According to scientists from Heriot-Watt University, the crater was caused by an asteroid 400m wide colliding …

The James Webb Space Telescope has changed a lot of things in the astronomical community, but perhaps even in society in general. Never before have we been able to look so back into the past as now. Thanks to JWST, we have been able to catch a glimpse of some …

Per leggere questo articolo occorrono 5 minuti Gli archeologi dell’Israel Antiquities Authority hanno rinvenuto oltre 600 astragali, relativi a zampe di quadrupedi, nei pressi dell’antico centro urbano di Maresha, o Marissa, nell’Israele centrale. Gli astragali risalgono al periodo ellenistico del centro urbano, circa 2.300 anni fa, e il loro uso  …

A team of British UFO researchers has released the “clearest UFO photograph ever”. However, sceptics say it’s a triangular rock reflected in water. Read more Section:  News Mysterious Phenomena Read Later  Source: Ancient Origins

VILLAHERMOSA, MEXICO—Accoring to a Live Science report, archaeologists in the Mexican state of Tabasco have recovered two circular Olmec reliefs dating to between 900 and 400 B.C. that depict local rulers engaging in a form of ritual contortion. In these rituals, researchers say, practitioners adopted a stance or seating position …