Michelle Moran's Blog, page 69

Rediscovered walls protected Sphinx from winds, sand

(CNN) -- Protection from the Sahara's howling dust storms may have helped the Sphinx maintain its steady gaze over the millennia.

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Pompeii's Mystery Horse Is a Donkey

Indeed, the identity of the strange breed of 'horse' that has been discovered in 2004, at Pompeii, has been cleared out by a Cambridge University researcher, who realized it was actually a donkey. Back in 2004, when academics unearthed skeletons found at a house in the ancient Roman town that was covered in ashes in 79 AD, they thought it belonged to an extinct breed of horse.

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Gigapan: Prehistoric Cave Art of Niaux

Deep in the mountainside near the Ariege river in France, ghostly images of long ago still dance across the rock walls of tunnels, overhangs, and vast caverns.

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Bronze Age hoard found intact in Essex field

Archaeologists have unearthed a collection of Bronze Age axe heads, spear tips and other 3,000-year-old metal objects buried in an Essex field.

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Old Mystic Cemetery Has Rare Wolf Stones

MYSTIC — When a young Israel Putnam climbed into a craggy den on a snowy afternoon in 1743 and killed the last wolf in Connecticut, colonists could breathe a sigh of relief.

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Armenian archeologists: 5,900-year-old skirt found

AP: YEREVAN, Armenia -- An Armenian archaeologist says that scientists have discovered a skirt that could be 5,900-year-old.

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Early Humans' Weapon-Making Skills Sharper Than Expected

By Charles Q. Choi, LiveScience Senior Writer

A delicate, sophisticated way to craft sharp weapons from stone apparently was developed by humans more than 50,000 years sooner than had been thought.

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Ancients faced dangers worse than cancer

Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Just imagine: a world without cancer. It's a tantalizing thought, recently floated by researchers at Manchester University in the UK.

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Columbus crew skeletons free of syphilis

THE question of whether Christopher Columbus and his crew were responsible for bringing syphilis to Europe from the Americas appears to have been answered by the discovery of a collection of knobbly skeletons in a London cemetery, experts have revealed.

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The First Emperor's Terracotta Army recruited outside China

by Owen Jarus

Acrobats from Burma, workers from Central or West Asia, and a mausoleum design inspired by work in the Middle East – the Mausoleum of China's First Emperor was a cosmopolitan place says Dr. Duan Qingbo, the man in charge of excavating it.

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