Ancient history

When past meets present: The Nature and Parks Authority team restores the glory of the 900-year-old crusader fortress – complex work funded by the Ya'ara Foundation.

“Strategies of body transformation and the construction of social identity were already part of the human experience in Europe more than twelve thousand years ago” a researcher said.

A paleontologist said the footprints were left by carnivorous dinosaurs similar to Acrocanthosaurus, and are approximately 110 to 115 million years old.

"We identified numerous individuals with deformed skulls who were genetically Central Asian, and we even found direct genealogical links to the Avars and Huns" said the lead author.

Researchers found at least 11 local victims - children and adults - whose skinned, dismembered, and cooked remains show cut marks, fractures, and human bite traces, indicating systematic cannibalism.

Some of the 14 bodies were found face down with their hands tied behind their backs near a Cupisnique ritual temple.

Researchers recovered three adult skeletons, five egg clutches and well-preserved bones from Wuding County’s Lower Jurassic strata.

A cooperative uses heirloom wheat, stone mills and oak-fired ovens to recreate the ritual loaf and aims to put it on global tables.

In just 29 square meters researchers documented footprints from at least five ceratopsians, one ankylosaurid, one small theropod and two large tyrannosaurids moving in the same direction.

Archeologist Josuhé Lozada Toledo said, "it was the most exhausting field experience of my career, but in the end, we found the archaeological evidence just where the computer model predicted."

Turkish archaeologists found a 35 sqm mosaic in Diyarbakır with a Star of David, cross motif, six lines of Ancient Greek text, and geometric patterns during a grave excavation in Ergani district.