Ancient golden helmet recovered more than a year after Dutch heist
The helmet and three golden bracelets were stolen in January 2025, but one bracelet is yet to be found.
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Ancient Egyptian artifacts stolen from Australian museum
He turned “cat burglar” into a job description. A 52‑year‑old man has been charged after an Egyptian cat sculpture and “priceless” artifacts were stolen from an Australian history museum, Queensland police said Sunday. The suspect is accused of smashing a window at the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology in Caboolture, north of Brisbane, in…
Africa: Life in Fossil Bones – What We Can Learn From Tiny Traces of Ancient Blood Chemicals
Blood tests are useful tools for doctors and scientific researchers: they can reveal a lot about a body’s health. Usually, a blood sample is taken to get a picture of the large molecules that are present, such as cholesterols, lipids and proteins. This is called a metabolic profile. For more specific information, another kind of…
Africa: Ancient African Bedrock Reveals the Violent Beginnings of Life On Our Blue Planet
You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA’s rovers. What if there were a time machine capable of roaming Earth during its remote geological past, perhaps even going right back to its beginnings, beaming back pictures of similar quality? This is not science fiction. In remote corners of…
Southern Africa: Becoming Human in Southern Africa – What Ancient Hunter-Gatherer Genomes Reveal
New genetic research is shedding light on some of the earliest chapters of our human history. In one of the largest studies of its kind, scientists analysed DNA from 28 individuals who lived in southern Africa between 10,200 and a few hundred years ago. The study provides more evidence that hunter-gatherers from southern Africa were…
Africa: AI Reveals Which Predators Chewed Ancient Humans’ Bones – Challenging Ideas On Which Homo Species Was the First Tool-Using Hunter
Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used them to define Homo habilis – the earliest known member of our own genus. Paleoanthropologists define the first examples of the…
Skeletons in mass grave are ancient Roman soldiers, study finds
Scientists say seven skeletons found in a mass grave in Croatia were most likely Roman soldiers who lived 1,700 years ago. The male skeletons, all with various injuries, were found “completely preserved” during excavations in 2011 at the site of the Roman city of Mursa – modern-day Osijek – in Croatia’s far east, a new…
Quest for Queen Cleopatra’s lost tomb reveals a sunken ancient Egyptian harbor
Cairo — Archaeologists say they have discovered evidence of an ancient, long-submerged Mediterranean port that was linked to the Taposiris Magna Temple near Egypt’s northern coastal city of Alexandria. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery last week, expanding on what’s known about the temple complex about 30 miles west of Alexandria that…
Search for ancient Egyptian gold bracelet missing from museum
Authorities across Egypt are searching for a 3,000-year-old bracelet reported missing from a leading museum in Cairo. The rare gold band, adorned with spherical lapis lazuli beads, dates back to the reign of King Amenemope, a pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s 21st Dynasty who ruled from 993 to 984BC. The antiquities ministry said it had taken…
Africa: How Africa’s Ancient Enemy – Malaria – May Have Influenced COVID-19 Severity
Cape Town — When COVID-19 swept the globe in early 2020, health experts braced for devastation in Africa. The continent’s healthcare systems, already stretched thin by endemic diseases like malaria, seemed ill-equipped to handle a new pandemic. Yet as the virus spread, a puzzling pattern emerged – many African countries reported lower COVID-19 severity rates…