Chicxulub-Like Asteroid Caused Megatsunami on Early Mars
The Chicxulub-like asteroid crash landed in shallow ocean waters in the Martian region of Chryse Planitia 3.4 billion years ago (Hesperian period) and left a crater about 110 km wide,…
Ancient Gold Coins Reveal Long-Lost Roman Emperor: Sponsian
In 1713, a collection of eight gold coins of five different design types, one of which featured the unknown Roman emperor Sponsian, was found in Transylvania, Romania. The coins were…
2,000-Year-Old Inscribed Bronze Hand Rewrites History of Basque Language
Archaeologists in Spain have found a hand-shaped bronze object engraved with words in a Vasconic language, a precursor to the modern Basque language. The Hand of Irulegi. Image credit: SC…
NASA’s Orion Spacecraft is on Its Way to the Moon
Carrying an uncrewed Orion, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) — the most powerful rocket in the world — lifted off today at 1:47 a.m. EST from at NASA’s Kennedy Space…
Scientists Find Earliest Evidence of Hominins Cooking with Fire
Archaeologists have found the 780,000-year-old remains of a cooked carp-like fish at the wetland Acheulean site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov in Israel. Ancient inhabitants of the Gesher Benot Ya’aqov site…
2,500-Year-Old Etruscan Temple Discovered in Italy
Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a monumental temple in Vulci, an ancient Etruscan city in Italy. The corner of the newly-discovered temple (left) under excavation and the larger Tempio…
Archaeologists Find 3,700-Year-Old Ivory Comb Inscribed with Canaanite’s Wish to Eradicate Lice
The small inscribed ivory comb was found at Tel Lachish, a key Canaanite city-state in the 2nd millennium BCE, the second most important city in the Judean Kingdom after Jerusalem…
Early Byzantine Quarter Unearthed in Ancient City of Ephesus
Archaeologists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences have uncovered the 1,400-year-old ruins of the business and gastronomy district in Ephesus, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey. The excavation area (center)…
Huge Trove of Byzantine Gold Coins Unearthed in Israel
A hoard of 44 gold coins dating to the 7th century CE has been unearthed by archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). A gold solidus coin found by IAA…