America

12 August, 2014 - 03:18 aprilholloway

Evidence for Pre-Clovis Inhabitants of Americas Emerges from Sea Floor

A fisherman inadvertently dragged up one of the most significant pieces of evidence for the existence of ancient inhabitants of North America prior to the Clovis people, who walked the land some 15,...

13 April, 2014 - 00:15 chickasaw

Three-Thousand-Year-Old Living Language Loses Last Monolingual Speaker

Less than 20 Native American languages spoken in the United States are projected to survive another 100 years and the Chickasaw language, or Chikashshanompa', is just one of many tribal languages...

16 February, 2014 - 23:19 aprilholloway

How the most important plant for Prehistoric Man migrated across the planet

The bottle gourd, otherwise known as the calabash plant, was prehistoric man’s most useful plant. It is believed to be the first cultivated plant in the world, and may have been domesticated even...

9 December, 2013 - 21:40 aprilholloway

Archaeologists Identify Oldest Human Footprints in North America

More than four decades ago, a set of fossilised footprints were discovered during highway construction work in northeastern Mexico, about 300 kilometres from the Texas border. They were excavated and...

16 November, 2013 - 01:20 ancient-origins

The Revelation of the Pyramids

This is one of the best videos on the pyramids that no 'debunker' could talk against - even if they try. The Revelation of the Pyramids takes an in depth look into one of the seven wonders of the...

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14 November, 2013 - 05:47 aprilholloway

Did Ancient Egyptians Trade Nicotine and Cocaine With the New World?

It has long been said that Christopher Columbus was not the first foreigner to step foot in the Americas by the time he reached there in 1492. Among the theories put forward is that the Vikings,...

6 November, 2013 - 05:15 aprilholloway

American University returns 10,000 ancient tablets to Iraq

In a move that has pleased many historians and archaeologists, Cornell University has forfeited their vast collection of cuneiform tablets , which detail daily life in ancient Mesopotamia, considered...

31 October, 2013 - 00:31 aprilholloway

The Enigmatic Nazca Lines of Peru

Located in the arid Peruvian coastal plain, some 400 km south of Lima, the geoglyphs of Nazca cover an incredible 450 km 2 . They are among archaeology's greatest enigmas because of their quantity,...

27 October, 2013 - 01:21 aprilholloway

The Mysterious Kennewick Man still hangs in Limbo

Nearly two decades ago, two young men stumbled across a human skull in the Columbian River at Kennewick, Washington. The discovery ended up being one of the biggest archaeological finds of a...

15 October, 2013 - 01:04 aprilholloway

Why NOT to celebrate Columbus Day

Columbus Day, which is celebrated today in the USA and honours the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the ‘New World’, is an example of outdated and misguided history. Rather than celebrate, we...

14 October, 2013 - 01:04 aprilholloway

Griffin artefact returned to Iran from US is a fake

Last month we reported on a major development for ethics in archaeology when we saw the US return a historically significant artefact to Iran – a precious Persian silver chalice dating back 2,700...

9 October, 2013 - 02:03 aprilholloway

Did China discover America 70 years before Columbus?

Recently we reported on a new book by Italian physicist and philologist Lucio Russo who presented the controversial claim that the ancient Greeks discovered America long before Christopher Columbus...

30 September, 2013 - 02:47 aprilholloway

Ancient Persian artefact of mythical Griffin returned to Iran

The US government has returned a precious Persian silver chalice dating back 2,700 years to Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani during his rare visit to New York to attend the 68th Session of the United...

23 September, 2013 - 05:10 aprilholloway

Reconsidering History: Ancient Greeks Discovered America Thousands of Years Ago

A new book by Italian physicist and philologist Lucio Russo presents the controversial claim that the ancient Greeks discovered America long before Christopher Columbus set foot on American soil in...

15 September, 2013 - 12:58 ancient-origins

The Kensington Runestone & Other Out Of Place Artifacts In America

Scott Wolter of History's H2 channel's hit show America Unearthed joins Dr. Rita Louise on Just Energy Radio where he discusses the Kensington Runestone & other out of place artifacts in America.

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15 August, 2013 - 03:46 aprilholloway

The Oldest Rock Art in North America

A set of petroglyphs in western Nevada dated in August 2013 to between 10,500 and 14,800 years old, are the oldest rock art ever found in North America, tracing back to a time in which it is believed...

1 April, 2013 - 08:53 ancient-origins

Ancient Humans in America May be Older than First Thought

Researchers in Texas have suggested that ancient people arrived in America between 15,000 and 20,000 years ago, which is much earlier than originally believed. Evidence comes from more than 2.6...