Russian billionaire to buy Valley of the Temples?
The mayor of the Sicilian city of Agrigento said Thursday that he would not sell one of Italy’s prime archaeological treasures even for 40 billion euros after it reportedly attracted the interest of...
View ArticleUNESCO to preserve Tunisian site of Deguech
UNESCO has recently collaborated with a Tunisian association, Atlel, to set up an action program for the protection and preservation of neglected Roman sites in Deguech, Tozeur. Deguech is located in...
View ArticleExcavations at the Kolossi Sugar Mill
The Ministry of Communications and Works, Department of Antiquities, announces the completion of the eighteenth excavation season at the Medieval Sugar Mill of Kolossi, in Limassol District. The...
View ArticleNew Year brings new attacks on Evolution in US schools
The new year is bringing new controversy over teaching evolution in public schools, with two bills in New Hampshire seeking to require teachers to teach the theory more as philosophy than science....
View ArticleDecoded: The Mystery of Human Migration
It is the greatest journey in history, and now the story of how the first members of our species walked out of their African homeland to colonise almost every corner of the world is being told by...
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Iraq’s ancient history neglected in Nineveh
Iraq is home to some of the world’s most important artefacts of human history. Yet in Nineveh, archaeological sites are being sold off for residential compounds, used as refugee camps or for military...
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Discovery fuels theory of ‘lost world’ under lake
The recovery of a mysterious wooden pole at the bottom of Lake Huron is fuelling excitement among U.S. and Canadian researchers that they have found more evidence of a “lost world” of North American...
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Tiago Barros Designs a Passing Cloud that Lets You Float Through the Sky
Who hasn’t dreamt of floating on a cloud? Whether we are looking up at the sky or gazing out of an airplane window, those giant beds of fluff are irresistible. New York designer Tiago Barros is on the...
View ArticleStudy shows link between pregnancy obesity and lower child test scores.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Women who are obese before they become pregnant are at higher risk of having children with lower cognitive function – as measured by math and reading tests taken between ages 5 to 7...
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Computerized ‘Rosetta Stone’ reconstructs ancient languages
University of British Columbia and Berkeley researchers have used a sophisticated new computer system to quickly reconstruct protolanguages — the rudimentary ancient tongues from which modern...
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