BERLIN.- A team of scientists, comprising members from Berlin’s Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Universität Greifswald, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the Leibniz Laboratory for Radiometric Dating and Sta…
New Evidence Found for Flour in Stone-Age Diet
By: Randolph E. Schmid, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP).- The popular image may be of Stone Age people gnawing on a chunk of woolly mammoth, but new research indicates their diet may have been more balanced after all. Many researchers had assumed pe…
Neues Museum in Berlin Welcomes One Millionth Visitor
BERLIN.- At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, 1 September 2010, Michael Eissenhauer, Director General of the National Museums in Berlin, was delighted to be able to greet Harald Fuchs (48), from near Erlangen, as the millionth visitor to the Neues Museum and hande…
Afghan Archaeologists Find Buddhist Site as War Rages
KABUL (REUTERS).- Archaeologists in Afghanistan, where Taliban Islamists are fighting the Western-backed government, have uncovered Buddhist-era remains in an area south of Kabul, an official said on Tuesday. “There is a temple, stupas, beautiful rooms…
Archaeologists Discover 2,400-Year-Old Weapons and Tools in Valencia
VALENCIA.- The finding of a set of useful weapons for warriors from 2400 years ago in La Bastida de les Alcusses located in Moixent (Valencia) has confirmed this excavation as “the peninsular town of reference to study the Iberian period.” This has bee…