A complete portico from the temple of Khnum was spotted during an underwater survey of the Nile River, along with other large objects that Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, thinks fell into the river during transport. Even more information on the new investigation of the tomb of Seti I is […]

Is the demand for entertaining science programs interfering with “the slow, rigorous nature of the scientific process?” Nature investigates this question, using the recent article by media-savvy palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger of the University of Witwatersrand as an example. A task force of Alpine mountain climbers, archaeologists, and anthropologists has been assembled to rescue the artifacts […]