More than 200 Sa Huynh tombs were unearthed in central Vietnam. Adults in the Sa Huynh culture, which flourished between 1000 B.C. and 200 A.D., were cremated and buried in jars. Cremated bones were uncovered in Ireland from two small cist burials marked by a cairn and postholes. The cairn was spotted during gravel extraction […]

New research shows that the 2,100-year-old Antikythera Mechanism was used to track the dates of the Olympic Games and other competitions, in addition to being an astronomical calculator. “We were astonished because this is not an astronomic cycle but an Olympian cycle, one of social events. … One does not need a piece of high […]