Shuttle images reveal Egypt's lost great lake

[Science News]   A huge lake once waxed and waned deep in the sandy heart of the Egyptian Sahara, geologists have found.  More...

A prehistoric star map carved on a Welsh capstone?

[Archaeo News]  A recent excavation programme at a standing stone known as Trefael, near Newport (south-west Wales) has revealed that what originally was a portal dolmen in later times was transformed in a standing stone, probably used as a ritual marker to guide communities through a scared landscape.  More...

Discovering the Secrets of Stonehenge

[Science Daily]  A revolutionary new idea on the movement of big monument stones like those at Stonehenge has been put forward by an archaeology student at the University of Exeter.  More...

Picasso Treasure Trove Sparks Controversy

[Discovery]  A 71-year-old retired electrician is at the center of a legal battle after coming forward with more than 200 hitherto unknown paintings by Pablo Picasso, a French newspaper reported Monday.
Experts who have examined the collection have estimated it could be worth some 60 million euros ($80 million).  More...

Experts to unravel mystery behind European-looking Chinese

[Sify]  Anthropologists have begun a study to ascertain if the European-looking Chinese in northwest China are the descendants of a lost army of the Roman Empire.  More...

Kiwi may have solved mystery of the pyramids

[TVNZ]   A Wellington scientist has come up with an explanation that may help solve the question of how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids.  More...

New research explains remarkable preservation of African fossils

[One India]  A team of geologists from the University of Leicester's Department of Geology has solved the mystery of how an abundance of fossils have been marvellously preserved for nearly half a billion years in a remote region of Africa. They have established that an ancient wind brought life to the region - and was then instrumental in the preservation of the dead.  More...

Mystery of the Great Pyramid of Egypt intensifies

[Examiner]  The head of Cairo University Archeology Department, Dr. Ala Shaheen addressing an audience about recent discoveries around the Giza Plateau, the location of the Sphinx and Great Pyramid. In a shock statement he implied there might be truth to the theory that a highly advanced civilization, or benevolent extraterrestrials, helped the ancient Egyptians build the oldest of pyramids, the Pyramids of Giza.  More...