ROME — When archaeologist Giovanni Carboni first came upon the oddly shaped ceramic object during an excavation in a Roman suburb in 2006, he was baffled. “I said — please don’t write this, though, ...

Although the prehistoric site of Eynan-Mallaha in northern Israel has been thoroughly examined since 1955, it still holds some surprises for scientists. Seven prehistoric wind instruments known as ...

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ANN ARBOR, MI - Michigan’s state motto translates to, “If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you.” Replace peninsula with museums, and that pretty well describes the University of Michigan in ...

To achieve this result, the research team began by using a CT scanner provided by the startup Lumafield. The scanner allowed them to map both the interior and exterior of the instruments in extremely ...

After 18,000 years of silence, an ancient musical instrument played its first notes. The last time anyone heard a sound from the conch shell trumpet, thick sheets of ice still covered most of Europe.

ANN ARBOR, MI - What do you want to learn next fall? Sure, you can just take the prerequisites for that quantitative economics or neurobiology degree. Graduating on time: that’s a good thing, but what ...

Ancient bronze musical instruments were discovered in the tomb of a high-ranking official from more than 2,000 years ago. Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology When researchers ...

At head of title: Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Ten of the plates accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress. "From the Report of the U.S. National Museum for 1896." ...