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Archaeorama has got a new home! We have moved to the new Discovery News site: Discovery News Archaeology And there's more: all my work -- news stories, blog postings, slideshows, and videos -- can be found at: Rossella Lorenzi See you at the n...
Ancient Civilization Collapsed After Cutting Key Trees
From today’s Discovery News story on the Nazca people:We have important lessons to learn from this ancient civilisation, which exposed itself to floods after chopping down thousand year old trees in order to make way for agriculture.Best known for...
Amelia Earhart Eaten By Coconut Crabs?
As a new biopic about legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart launches onto movie theater screens this weekend, speculations about her mysterious disappearance over the Pacific on July 2, 1937 have resurged. One of the most plausible theories comes from r...
How Animal Mummies Were Made
While Swiss researchers have succeeded in mummifying a body part using the salty recipe of the ancient Egyptians, in this Heritage Key video, Salima Ikram, professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo and a leading expert on animal mu...
Fingerprint Points To New Leonardo Da Vinci's Work
Is this chalk, pen and ink drawing made on animal skin a long-lost work by Leonardo da Vinci? Leading scholars seem to have little doubt about the attribution. With her an elaborated hairstyle and dress, the aristocratic young girl in......
Buried Coins Speak Of Population Declines in Ancient Rome
Buried Roman coins that citizens hid to protect their savings in times of instability, indicate that during the 1st century B.C the population of ancient Rome was smaller than sometimes suggested.The approximate population size of the late Roman Rep...

