Just over 50 years ago, paleontologist Donald Johnson unearthed the remains of “Lucy,” an ancient human relative who lived more than 3 million years ago. Now another group of scientists has found new clues about what life was like in Lucy’s time, including the surprising discovery of primitive tools dating back three million years.
A rare collection of ancient coins was discovered last week by Israeli researchers, who called the discovery a “Hanukkah archaeological miracle.” The coins are more than 2,000 years old and believed to belong to King Alexander Janneus, the second ruler of the Hasmonean dynasty that presided over Judea in the final centuries before the Common … Read more
Spanish archaeologists have succeeded in extracting a 2,600-year-old shipwreck from waters off the country’s southeastern coast, two decades after the relic’s initial discovery, officials said. The ancient Phoenician shipwreck dates back to the 7th century BCE. It was discovered in 1994 off the coast of Murcia, in southeastern Spain, near the town of Mazarrón, according … Read more