Ancient mural provides new insight on Maya 2005-12-14 08:25:35
Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest known Maya painting inside a ruined pyramid in the Guatemalan jungle.Full Story...
Hunt starts for Hawaiian king's time capsule 2005-12-10 09:16:45
Military specialists will use high-technology equipment for finding human remains in the hope of locating a long-lost time capsule that was buried more than a century ago by King Kamehameha V.Full Story...
Mbeki hails centre at Cradle of Humankind 2005-12-08 00:01:50
At the new visitors' centre at the Cradle of Humankind, called Maropeng, which is seTswana for "returning to the place of origin", one can get in contact with the past, present and future of humankind.Full Story...
New discoveries made on Titanic wreck 2005-12-06 03:27:25
Scientists studying the wreck of the Titanic on the North Atlantic ocean floor found evidence that the legendary luxury liner broke into three pieces when it hit an iceberg and not two as previously believed.Full Story...
Third World fit for wind power - UN study 2005-12-05 03:36:26
Windmills have a greater-than-expected potential for generating electricity in the Third World, according to new UN wind maps of countries from China to Nicaragua.Full Story...
Renowned Romanian museum to be restored 2005-12-04 06:36:29
Romania has decided to return the country's oldest museum including a priceless art collection, the Brukenthal Palace in the Transylvanian town Sibiu, to the protestant parish from which it had been expropriated in the Communist era.Full Story...
Bird dinosaur would have 'fallen off' twigs 2005-12-02 01:36:07
An ancient flying reptile that is believed to have been the forerunner of modern birds would not have been capable of perching in a tree, according to German scientists.Full Story...
Chile's child mummy secrets unwrapped 2005-11-27 11:36:56
The Chinchorro mummies are the oldest known artificially preserved dead, dating from thousands of years before Egyptian mummies, and the life quest of the archaeologists who study them is to discover why this early society developed such a complex death ritual.Full Story...
Japan space probe to make asteroid touchdown 2005-11-25 04:18:34
The Japanese space probe Hayabusa is close to making a new landing on an asteroid nearly 300 million kilometres from Earth, from which it is expected to take rock samples to be tested upon its return.Full Story...
Saxon slave whip is star of London exhibition 2005-11-21 07:39:21
A multi-tailed leather whip that was used as a slave scourge one thousand years ago is proving to be the main attraction of a new exhibition in London.Full Story...
Dung shows dinosaurs grazed on grass 2005-11-19 01:03:32
Traces of grass found in fossilised dinosaur dung suggest that grass grew on Earth much earlier than previously thought.Full Story...
Californian claims to have Beethoven's skull 2005-11-18 02:46:18
The great-great nephew of an Austrian doctor says that recently completed tests show a high likelihood that bones he inherited 15 years ago belong to the great composer Ludwig van Beethoven.Full Story...
Goliath's name found at Israeli dig 2005-11-14 05:47:39
An Israeli researcher says he has made a Goliath of a find - the first archaeological evidence suggesting that the biblical story of David slaying the Philistine giant actually took place.Full Story...
Minoan treasures found off the Cretan track 2005-11-12 09:15:28
Archeologists in Crete have found an important trove of archeological treasures containing some of the earliest known examples of Greek writing, the ministry of culture has said.Full Story...
Ice worms have much to offer, says prof 2005-11-12 08:03:06
If you go out on the ice tonight, you might find biologist Daniel Shain and his trusty spoon, hunting for worms that might shed light on how life can survive at very cold temperatures.Full Story...
Scientists agog at 'Godzilla' discovery 2005-11-11 02:47:48
It's the stuff of little boys' wildest imaginations - a crocodile having the head of a dinosaur and the tail of a fish - which paleontologists believe roamed the seas 135 million years ago.Full Story...
Hunters not farmers tamed central Europe 2005-11-12 02:36:45
DNA testing on 24 skeletons from early farming settlements in Germany, Austria and Hungary has yielded surprising results, and scientists are now questioning their previous assumptions about the ancestry of modern central Europeans.Full Story...
Archaeologists unearth ancient burial mounds 2005-11-10 02:31:04
Archaeologists have unearthed burial mounds in Armenia dating back to the third millennium. They believe the mounds contain remains and trinkets from ancient Aryan nomads.Full Story...
Early Christian church uncovered in Israel 2005-11-08 07:13:59
Prisoners excavating a site in Israel have uncovered what archaeologists believe may be the Holy Land's - or even the world's - oldest church.Full Story...
China showcases nautical hero Zheng He 2005-11-06 09:49:29
As China and the world mark the 600th anniversary of the voyages of famed navigator Zheng He, a newly excavated shipyard where much of his ancient fleet was built has finally opened to the public.Full Story...
Copernicus remains believed found in Poland 2005-11-05 08:46:05
Polish archaeologists are all but certain they have located the skeletal remains of Nicholas Copernicus, the 16th-century cleric whose heliocentric theory was to revolutionise astronomy.Full Story...
'Curse of the Iceman' claims 6th victim 2005-11-04 03:01:11
A sixth person connected to the discovery of the 5 300-year-old frozen corpse of a man who became known as Oetzi the Iceman has died, fuelling claims of a curse surrounding the mummified body.Full Story...
Mice become new Sinatras of the animal world 2005-11-02 00:13:48
Scientists have known for decades that male lab mice produce high-frequency sounds when they pick up the scent of a female mouse, but it turns out those sounds are more complex and interesting than previously thought...Full Story...
Bosnian explorer hails 'pyramids of Europe' 2005-10-30 05:38:02
Semir Osmanagic, a hobby archaeologist, has spent about R130 000 researching the Visoko valley in Bosnia and believes that he has found Europe's first pyramids.Full Story...
King Tut had a penchant for red wine 2005-10-26 13:11:53
Wine bottles from King Tutankhamun's time were apparently labelled with the name of the product, the year of harvest, the source and the vine grower, but not the colour. But the king drank red, says a researcher who analysed very dry traces of the vintage found in his tomb.Full Story...
Terracotta army found to be guarding treasure 2005-10-23 06:20:26
Qin Shihuang, Beijing's First Emperor, may have been buried with his state treasure, after a magnetic scan by archaeologists showed a bounty of coins scattered about in the sealed-off tomb.Full Story...
Headless mummy predating Incas found in Lima 2005-10-20 04:37:31
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of the oldest mummy ever found in Peru's capital - a high-ranking official of the Huari tribe who lived about 1 300 years ago. Marco Aquino investigates...Full Story...
Gorillas prove to be handy with tools 2005-10-19 04:20:08
An infant gorilla in a Democratic Republic of Congo sanctuary left scientists scratching their heads when she showed an uncanny knack for using instruments to extract oil from palm nuts.Full Story...
Network of tombs found in eastern China 2005-10-18 06:06:09
A forklift operator working at a construction site near the Chinese port city of Ningbo has unearthed an ancient complex of tombs containing bronze mirrors and porcelain, according to news reports in Beijing.Full Story...
Lost treasure returned to Ethiopia 2005-10-12 11:03:39
A special sword that was looted by British troops who defeated an Ethiopian army 137 years ago has been returned to Addis Ababa.Full Story...
The Mary Rose rises again... 2005-10-12 11:14:44
Archaeologists have raised the massive anchor of King Henry VIII's flagship, the Mary Rose, from a silt-filled channel off the coast of southern England.Full Story...
Jaw bone of 'hobbit' found on island 2005-10-12 05:21:48
Scientists digging in a remote Indonesian cave have uncovered a jaw bone that they say adds more evidence that a tiny prehistoric hobbit-like species once existed.Full Story...
Robot to probe Great Pyramid's mysteries 2005-10-11 06:51:05
A robot which has been two years in the making is soon to make its way up narrow shafts in Egypt's Great Pyramid in the hope of finding an undiscovered burial chamberFull Story...
Archaeologists unearth ancient pregnant rhino 2005-10-10 04:57:06
Archaeologists in eastern China have excavated a fossilised pregnant, hornless rhinoceros - thought to have lived 18 million years ago.Full Story...
Two men held over missing pharaonic statues 2005-10-09 06:36:14
Egyptian police have arrested two men in connection with the disappearance of three 3 000-year-old pharaonic statues from the basement of the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo.Full Story...
Could Adam's descendents be living in Africa? 2005-10-04 04:09:52
In Southern Africa lives someone who has the closest match to the DNA of a man who walked the Earth 60 000 years ago - and Dr Spencer Wells is hoping to shake his hand one day. Shaun Smillie reports...Full Story...
Timbuktu treasures on display in SA 2005-10-03 10:28:26
Ancient manuscripts from Africa's desert north have gone on display in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the first time.Full Story...
Astronomers detect sidekick mooning over Xena 2005-10-03 02:59:47
A dim little satellite named Gabrielle has been discovered near Xena, the possible tenth planet in our solar system.Full Story...
Ancient statues of Greek goddesses uncovered 2005-10-02 06:49:07
A team of Italian archaeologists have discovered life-sized marble statues representing the goddesses Athena and Hera at the theatre of Gortyn in Greece.Full Story...
Medieval texts preserve African heritage 2005-09-30 12:22:05
A collection of medieval manuscripts from Timbuktu which academics hail as proof of an African scholarly tradition go on public show on the continent for the first time.Full Story...
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