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Leaf fossils discovered high in Australia’s Snowy Mountains have revealed a past history of warmer rainforest vegetation and a lack of snow, in contrast with the alpine vegetation and winter snow-covered slopes of today. Continue reading “Lilly Pilly fossils reveal snowless Snowy Mountains”
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a ramp for transporting stone blocks used to build the pyramids. The way these massive blocks were transported from the quarries to the building sites is a question that has long puzzled researchers. Continue reading “Ramp found in Egypt might explain how stone blocks were transported”
An important excavation for global archaeology was completed a few days ago (Note: October 2018) in the heart of the Aegean Sea. The excavation, conducted by a research team headed by archaeologists from the University of Cambridge, the Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades and the Cyprus Institute, concerned the islet of Dhaskalio, unknown to the public at large, on the most western peninsular of Keros, an uninhabited island in the Cyclades. Continue reading “Sophisticated prehistoric finds in Dhaskalio, Keros island, Greece”
Archaeologists have discovered a previously unknown pyramid standing 22 metres high inside a hill on the outskirts of Mexico city. Continue reading “Ancient pyramid unearthed in Mexico”
In mid-October (2018), during excavations by the Ephorate of Antiquities of Phthiotis and Eurytania in the greater area of Atalanti in Phthiotis, four torsos of life size limestone statues came to light and one section of the three sided base of a statue. Continue reading “Archaic funerary statues in Phthiotis: The Atalanti kouroi”
Excavations continued this year of the prehistoric settlement at the site of “Koimisi Therasias”. The settlement that takes up the summit and upper slopes of an impressive hill on the south side of today’s Therasia on the brow of the crater/caldera before it erupted, dates from the Early and Middle Bronze Age and offers important data on the Thera-Therasia complex during the earlier phases of the Bronze Age. Continue reading “Important finds from Therasia”
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