Anthropology News

AMMAN, Jordan : Jordan turned over Sunday nearly 2,500 stolen Iraqi artifacts to Iraq's top antiquities official, in the latest effort to recover the war torn nation's stolen heritage.

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Some University of Wisconsin-La Crosse archaeology students are participating in a dig that has so far uncovered artifacts 1,400 or 1,500 years old.

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AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL site of national importance has been unveiled at Exmoor. Flint tools, thought to have been left by hunter-gatherers around 8,000 years ago, have been found at the site at Larkbarrow near ...

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Cairo, June 20: Scientists are carrying out a laser scanning survey of Djoser's Step Pyramid - Egypt's oldest pyramid complex, in an attempt to create its virtual three-dimensional model.

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Czech archaeologists have discovered a unique burial site from the Migration Period in Prague, the largest burial grounds of this period unearthed in Europe so far, Milan Kucharik and Jiri Vavra, heads of the ...

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Mexico recovered more than 900 pre-Columbian artifacts seized from smugglers in the U.S. and Canada, including 800-year-old fibre sandals, spears and hunting bows looted from nomadic caves, officials said ...

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Australia now fattest country, study says MELBOURNE, June 20 -- Australia is the fattest nation in the world, with more than 9 million adults classified as obese or overweight, a new study indicates.

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Canberra, June 16: A new analysis of "hobbits", an extinct race of tiny hominids, has suggested that they descended from the first tiny humans to leave Africa, and this might have happened some 2.25 million ...

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Two wine presses found in Egypt were likely part of the area's earliest winery, producing holy wine for export to Christians abroad, archaeologists say.

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Construction workers on the waterfront of the Norwegian capital have discovered the remains of three ships that may be around 400 years old.

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