News
World first: Muddied mummy reveals new details of ancient practice
Macquarie University researchers have used cutting-edge medical technology to reveal a previously unknown method of preserving Egyptian mummies.
Tag: archaeology
History & Culture
Scientists reveal ancient Aboriginal underwater archaeological sites
Scientists report the first submerged ancient Aboriginal archaeological sites found on the seabed.
History & Culture
65,000-year-old plant remains reveal the diet of the earliest known Aboriginal Australians
Ancient plant remains show the earliest Australians spent plenty of time cooking.
Travel with us
Lightning Ridge Fossil Dig
Join us for this Australian Geographic Society Scientific Expedition in August 2017.
AustroPalaeo
Busting a botanical myth
The NT’s Palm Valley was long thought to have been a surviving relict of Australia’s prehistoric rainforests, but we now know its trees arrived much more recently with Aboriginal horticulturalists.
News
Australia’s oldest ornament found in the Kimberleys
A piece of kangaroo bone discovered in remote north-western Australia 20 years ago is the oldest-known piece of Indigenous Australian jewellery, according to new research.
AustroPalaeo
Rock shelter provides earliest evidence of humans in the outback
Aboriginal people were already living in Australia’s interior 49,000 years ago, according to an incredible series of new archaeological discoveries.
News
700,000-year-old Hobbit ancestor discovered
Scientists have unearthed fossils from an extinct human species that predates Homo floresiensis by more than half a million years.
News
Archaeologists open lid on ‘Plain of Jars’ mystery
A major archaeological excavation in Laos’s mysterious ‘Plain of Jars’ has unearthed an ancient burial ground dating back 2000 years.
News
‘Hobbits’ extinct much earlier than first thought
A tiny human species discovered in 2003 may have been extinct for much longer than previously thought.