Anthropology and Archaeology News

Research on a treasure trove of amber has yielded evidence that France once was covered by a dense tropical rainforest with trees similar to those found in the modern-day Amazon.

Ancient armoured fish fossils from Australia present some of the first definite fossil evidence of a forerunner to the human eye, a scientist from The Australian National University says.

On the morning of Friday July 20, 1928, the crew of an RAF aircraft took photographs over the site of the Roman town of Venta Icenorum at Caistor St Edmund in Norfolk, a site which now lies in open fields to the south of Norwich.

Scientists studying ancient fish bones in Scandinavia have discovered that warm-water species like anchovies and black sea bream that once thrived in Danish waters during a prehistoric warm period are now returning.

An underwater archaeology team from Indiana University announced today (Dec. 13) the discovery of the remnants of scandalous 17th century pirate Captain Kidd's Quedagh Merchant. The researchers race to make the announcement to protect the site from looter

A new genus and species of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic has been discovered in Antarctica. The massive sauropodomorph is called Glacialisaurus hammeri and lived about 190 million years ago.

Although most scientists believe tuberculosis emerged only several thousand years ago, new research reveals the most ancient evidence of the disease has been found in a 500,000-year-old human fossil from Turkey.

Dennis Myllyla thought he'd struck a fine bargain with the Michigan Department of Transportation. MDOT would get fill for nearby highway construction by dredging a pond on his farm near Arnheim, Mich., and Myllyla would get the pond.

Remains of an ancient synagogue from the Roman-Byzantine era have been revealed in excavations carried out in the Arbel National Park in the Galilee under the auspices of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Achaeologists in Italy have announced they have found a cave believed to be where legendary brothers Remus and Romulus were suckled by a wolf as babies.