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Ancient Maya Rituals Discovered Beneath Mexico’s Ballcourts
SciTechDaily· 3 hours agoResearchers have discovered evidence of ceremonial offerings beneath a ballcourt in Mexico. For...
Was the Stone Age Actually the Wood Age?
New York Times· 1 day agoNeanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed. In 1836, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish antiquarian, brought the first ...
These Are the Kids They Wanted
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThis is from her Columbia web page, now taken down: My dissertation is on fantasies of limitless energy in the transatlantic Romantic imagination from...
Decoding the Mysterious Nebra Sky Disc
Artnet News· 6 days agoIn July 1999, under the cover of darkness, two amateur treasure hunters with metal detectors unearthed a mysterious, ancient disc on a hillside near the...
Major renovations lead nominations for UK Museum of the Year 2024
Euronews via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe shortlist for the UK’s Museum of the Year has been announced, bringing together a range of...
Was Jurassic Park's Famous Marketing Tagline Born Out Of This On-Set Spielberg Joke?
Sci Fi Wire· 6 days agoOne of the least controversial things you can say as a cinema lover, is that Steven Spielberg's...
'Harry Potter' set at an HBCU? LaDarrion Williams wrote the book he always wanted to read
Los Angeles Times· 2 days agoLaDarrion Williams’ dream-come-true tale sounds like a Hollywood rags-to-riches film, about a kid...
What can shipwrecks tell us? New book says pretty much everything
Republican-American· 6 days agoDavid Gibbins’ “A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks” is also a history of the world in 270...
Face of Neanderthal woman revealed 75,000 years later
Newsweek· 4 days agoThe face of a Neanderthal woman has been reconstructed, revealing her appearance about 75,000 years...
Ancient grave built for 'zombies' unearthed in Germany
MSN News· 4 days agoYou may think zombies are the preserve of Halloween and horror movies but, it turns out, our ancient...