'Cursing stone' found on Isle of Canna

A stone discovered by chance on the Isle of Canna is Scotland's first known example of a bullaun "cursing stone", experts have revealed. Dating from about 800 AD, the stones are associated with early Christian crosses - of which there is one on the isle. It was found in an ol …

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Rare Tyrannosaurus Skeleton to Be Auctioned

A nearly complete skeleton of a towering Tyrannosaurus bataaris set to go on auction on Sunday (May 20). The skeleton measures some 8-feet (2.4-meters) tall and 24-feet (7.3-meters) long. This is the first full Tyrannosaurus specimen to go on auction since "Sue," aTyranno …

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The Easter Island "Heads" Have Bodies

Maybe this isn’t a newsflash to anyone but me, but, um, the Moai “heads” on Easter Island have bodies. Because some of the statues are set deep into the ground, and because the heads on the statues are disproportionately large, many people (myself included) te …

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Mexico unearths monolith of Aztec God

Archaeologists in Mexico made a dramatic discovery in the state of Morelos when they uncovered an 8th century monolith featuring an Aztec God weighing 60 tonnes    

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Dinosaurs struggled with arthritis just like humans

Researchers studying a giant eight metre pliosaurus found evidence of an arthritis like disease in its jaw. Usually capable of ripping other dinosaurs to bits with its 20cm teeth, the gammy jaw would eventually have stopped her feeding and led to her death 150 million years ag …

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Dog domestication may have helped humans thrive while Neandertals declined

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Ancient Mayan workshop for astronomers discovered - Yahoo! News

Archaeologists have found a small room in Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like a blackboard to keep track of astronomical records and the society's intricate calendar some 1,200 years ago.

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Maya Artwork Uncovered In A Guatemalan Forest

Archaeologists working in one of the most impenetrable rain forests in Guatemala have stumbled on a remarkable discovery: a room full of wall paintings and numerical calculations. The buried room apparently was a workshop used by scribes or astronomers working for a Mayan king.  …

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BBC News - Mayan art and calendar at Xultun stun archaeologists

The site, in Guatemala, includes the first known instance of Mayan art painted on the walls of a dwelling.   A report in Science says it dates from the early 9th Century, pre-dating other Mayan calendars by centuries.   Such calendars rose to prominence recently a …

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Unknown language found stamped in ancient clay tablet

In deciphering the tablet seen above, John MacGinnis of the University of Cambridge found that many of the names on the list are not from any currently known ancient language. "One or two are actually Assyrian and a few more may belong to other known languages of the period, su …

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