Archeology

Researchers led by Jonathan Alarcón-Muñoz of the University of Chile found bones of pterosaurs in the desert that are more than 100 million years old. The authors of the work explored the Atacama Desert. The place where most of the remains of flying reptiles were found is in the mountains of Cerros Bravos in the...

Dinosaur fossils have been in the museum’s collection for many years and have recently been identified. In 2005, scientists discovered the remains of a dinosaur skull. The excavations were carried out near the regional town of Bulia in Queensland. The sample was in the South Australian Museum for several years, until scientists became interested in...

The Nat paleontological collection contains the remains of the first saber-like predator that anticipated the appearance of cats. We are talking about a representative of machaeroidins – Diegoaelurus vanvalkenburghae. Dr. Sean Zach of the University of Arizona College of Medicine at PeerJ writes about the find. The remains specimen of Diegoaelurus vanvalkenburghae is a lower...

The newly discovered 66.5 million-year-old soft-shell turtle is one of the oldest known species of its genus and lived towards the end of the Cretaceous, just before the extinction of the dinosaurs. Hutchemys walkerorum lived at the same time as the famous “Cretaceous” giants such as Tyrannosaurus Rex and Triceratops. The discovery gives scientists a...

During a search of a smugglers’ home in Jerusalem, Israeli police found ancient spell bowls and hundreds of other ancient objects. Hundreds of artifacts, including worked ivory and three “spell bowls” adorned with ancient magic spells, have been discovered by police in Jerusalem. However, it is not clear if all the artifacts are genuine. According...

A recent discovery by scientists at 8,000-year-old hunter-gatherer burial sites in Portugal’s Sado Valley shows that mummification has been around since the European Mesolithic. The study used the method of archaeothanatology with human decomposition experiments. Archeotanatology is an approach used by archaeologists to document and analyze human remains at archaeological sites that combines observations of...

Archaeologists have found a dagger made of meteoric iron in the tomb of Tutankhamun. New research casts doubt on theories about its origin. A dagger with a golden handle found in the tomb of Tutankhamun surprised archaeologists. They found that it was made from meteoric iron. Now, two new studies cast doubt on the origin...