Tag: archaeology

• Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 15:40 UTC

  Well-preserved Ice Age mastodons found in Peru

  

  Peruvian archaeologists found the fossilized remains of three Ice Age mastodons, which shed new light on these animals' presence in the region, with further specimes hoped to be unearthed shortly as the excavations that began in 2019 in the Chambara Valley, 300 kilometers east of Lima, are scheduled to continue. The behemoths found there are believed to be between 11,000 and 12,000 years old.

• Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Hot food and drinks shop found buried under the volcanic ashes or Pompeii

  

  Archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, have made the extraordinary find of a frescoed hot food and drinks shop that served up the ancient equivalent of street food to Roman passersby.

• Friday, July 12th 2019 - 13:13 UTC

  Humans came to the Americas earlier than thought, study shows

  

  A study by a Texas university released Thursday sheds new light on the population of the Americas as it places humans in the continent 2,000 years before than science has been maintaining.

• Monday, April 19th 2010 - 21:09 UTC

  Fossil of giant predator squid found in northern Mexico

  

  Mexican and German researchers have found the fossil of a giant squid that lived in northern Mexico about 100 million years ago, the daily La Jornada reported Friday.