Child Rearing Practices of Distant Ancestors Foster Morality, Compassion in Kids

[Science Daily]  Three new studies led by Notre Dame Psychology Professor Darcia Narvaez show a relationship between child rearing practices common in foraging hunter-gatherer societies...and better mental health, greater empathy and conscience development, and higher intelligence in children.  More...

Ancient Egypt's Pyramids: Norwegian Researcher Unlocks Construction Secrets

[Science Daily]  Scientists from around the world have tried to understand how the Egyptians erected their giant pyramids. Now, an architect and researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) says he has the answer to this ancient, unsolved puzzle.  More...

Britain's oldest working window frame built 1,000 years ago found buried in wall of Saxon church

[UK Daily Mail]  It has now been revealed after shocked workmen spotted the distinctive frame while renovating the Saxon building, in the village of Boxford, near Newbury, Berkshire.  More...

Ancient Arabian treasure trove unearthed in Germany

[The National]  Archaeologists in northern Germany have unearthed a treasure of Arabian silver dirhams dating back to the first half of the seventh century in a spectacular find that proves brisk trade between the Middle East and northern Europe already existed more than 1,200 years ago.  More...

Congress Approves Honor For Japanese American Vets

[KITV]  The veterans volunteered to fight for the United States even though they were branded "enemy aliens" and some of their families were detained in internment camps.  More...

NC researchers return to presumed Blackbeard wreck

[AP]  North Carolina archaeologists plan six weeks of underwater work at the nearly 300-year-old shipwreck presumed to be Blackbeard's pirate flagship.  More...

Siberians discovered America, claims Russian scientist

[The Times of India]  Scientists at a three-day international scientific conference in Sakhalin have said that the first settlers on Sakhalin, the Russian island in the North Pacific, appeared 100,000-200,000 years ago.   More...

Neanderthals More Intelligent Than Thought

[Discovery]  Anthropologist Julien Riel-Salvatore of the University of Colorado, Denver has studied Italian Neanderthal communities for the last seven years. His work sheds new light on the way we look at Neanderthals and their history.  More...

Cambridge university college dig finds Roman village

[BBC]  An archaeological dig to explore Anglo-Saxon graves at Cambridge University has unearthed "unexpected" evidence that the site was once a Roman village.  More...

Ancient Silk Road to be Revived by Railway

[Fars news Agency]  A senior Iranian legislator who is in China on an official visit underlined the importance of an international rail line which is due to link Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and China in the near future, saying that it would revive the ancient Silk Road.   More...

Holocaust denier tours Nazi sites in Poland

[AP]  Prosecutors in Poland say a British historian who denies the Holocaust is touring World War II sites including former Nazi death camps....The institute's spokesman Andrzej Arseniuk said prosecutors are watching his public statements for any violations of the law that forbids the denial of the Holocaust.   More...

Amazing Horned Dinosaurs Found on 'Lost Continent'

[Fox News]  On a "Lost Continent" that once covered much of the land now occupied by the U.S., paleontologists have discovered fossils of two new dinosaur species, relatives of the famed Triceratops.  More...

Bulgarian Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Roman Highway, Fortress

[Novinite]  A team of archaeologists from the Bulgarian National History Museum has uncovered a highway dating back to the zenith of the Roman Empire.  More...

Moses' parting of the Red Sea: Is there a physical explanation?

[Christian Science Monitor]  A new paper suggests that an area near the Red Sea area could have had favorable characteristics for 'wind setdown' some 3,000 years ago.  More...

The ancient Egyptian facelift: 'Beautiful' Queen Nefertiti had a 'bent nose and wrinkled eyes'

[UK Daily Mail]  An ancient Egyptian queen who was been hailed for thousands of years as the perfect example of beauty may not have been such a looker after all, researchers have claimed.  More...

Ancient crop holds promising potential

[Washington State University]  Today researchers are investigating bringing back camelina because it has some highly valuable properties for something much more modern than lamp oil. With some processing, camelina oil can be used in jet engines.  More...

1,500-year-old Samaritan synagogue found by Beit Shean

[Jerusalem Post]  The ancient Samaritan house of worship was discovered shortly before Rosh Hashanah and is one of the oldest Samaritan synagogues discovered in Israel.  More...

Volcanoes wiped out the Neanderthals?

[USA Today]  Volcanoes wiped out the Neanderthals some 40,000 years ago, suggest archeologists, setting the stage for modern humans in Europe.  More...

Russian Submarine Hunts Clues to Century-Old Mystery

[Spiegal Online]  Legend has it that almost a century ago a series of railway wagons stuffed with gold sank into the depths of a lake in Siberia. This week, researchers, exploring the depths by submarine, may have found the Russian royals' lost gold.  More...

Walker finds skeleton of World War I soldier preserved in astonishing condition buried in glacier on Italian ski resort

[UK mail Online]  An amateur historian has discovered the mummified body of a World War I solider frozen into an Italian glacier.  More...

Laminated Linen Protected Alexander the Great

[Discovery News]  Alexander's men wore linothorax, a highly effective type of body armor created by laminating together layers of linen, research finds.  More...