Math Puzzles’ Oldest Ancestors Took Form on Egyptian Papyrus British Museum CALCULATIONS The scribe of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, an Egyptian document more than 3,600 years old, introduces the roughly 85 problems by saying that he is presenting the “correct method of reckoning, for grasping the meaning of things and knowing everything that is, obscurities and all secrets.” By PAM BELLUCK Published: December 6, 2010 The first brain teasers were practical: problems to calculate how efficient a laborer was by how many logs he carried, or to gauge the potency of beer. 0 1 1

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Stonehenge, the mysterious circle of mammoth stone pillars in the middle of the English countryside, now has a slightly smaller twin. 0 1 0

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  Advertise on NYTimes.com Signs of Neanderthals Mating With Humans Johannes Krause MPI-EVA The Vindija cave in Croatia where three small Neanderthal bones were found. 0 1 4

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A "missing link" between humans and their apelike ancestors has been discovered. 0 1 3

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Scientists Rebuild Iceman Genome From Hair Sample 1) – An international team of scientists has rebuilt the genome of an ancient human for the first time. 0 1 3

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The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone - How In The World Did The Ten Commandments Get To America Before Columbus Did? 0 1 7

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The last speaker of an ancient language in India's Andaman Islands has died at the age of about 85, a leading linguist has told the BBC. 0 1 3

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Stone Age surgery discovered after 7,000-year-old man found with expertly amputated arm By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:22 PM on 25th January 2010 Comments (26) Add to My Stories   Advanced: Stone Age men had more medical knowledge than first thought Evidence of surgery carried out nearly 7,000 year ago has emerged – suggesting our Stone Age ancestors were more medically advanced than first thought. 1 1 3

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JERUSALEM (AP) - Archaeologists have uncovered remains of an 8,000-year-old prehistoric building as well as ancient flint tools in the modern city of Tel Aviv, Israel's Antiquities Authority announced Monday. 0 1 0

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Workers' Tombs Found Near Egypt's Pyramids Paul Schemm AP CAIRO (Jan. 0 1 0

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Did Noah Get Around in a Circular Ark? 0 1 4

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Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months JUST months - that's how long it took for Europe to be engulfed by an ice age. 0 1 0

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Stone Age humans crossed Sahara in the rain 20:00 09 November 2009 by Jeff Hecht For similar stories, visit the Human Evolution Topic Guide Wet spells in the Sahara may have opened the door for early human migration. 0 1 1

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In what was slated to be the site of a new 122-room hotel, archaeologists say they have discovered one of the world's oldest synagogues in Northern Israel. 1 1 8

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/a-skull-that-rewrites-the-hist... A skull that rewrites the history of man It has long been agreed that Africa was the sole cradle of human evolution. 0 1 2

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Archaeologists have solved an ancient mystery surrounding the famous Easter Island statues. 0 1 1

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Earlier Date for First Refined Stone Tools in Europe LinkedinDiggFacebookMixxMySpaceYahoo! 0 1 0

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Move over Ida—you're last month's news. 0 1 2

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This article is specifically geared toward Biblical Archaeology, but I am sure the same would hold true for any archaeological site. 0 1 21

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A discovery of a 47 million-year-old fossil primate that is said to be a human ancestor was announced and unveiled Tuesday at a press conference in New York City. 0 1 13

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/science/14venus.html?_r=1&ref=science Full-Figured Statuette, 35,000 Years Old, Provides New Clues to How Art Evolved No one would mistake the Stone Age ivory carving for a Venus de Milo. 0 1 6

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Scientists have found more evidence that the Indonesian "Hobbit" skeletons belong to a new species of human - and not modern pygmies. 0 1 27

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Five lines of ancient script on a shard of pottery could be the oldest example of Hebrew writing ever discovered, an archaeologist in Israel says. 0 1 12

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Source: National Geographic magazine Visit the National Geographic Photo Gallery to see the amazing images that accompanied this article. 0 1 10

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Artificial Intelligence Cracks 4,000-Year-Old Mystery By Brandon Keim, April 23, 2009 An ancient script that’s defied generations of archaeologists has yielded some of its secrets to artificially intelligent computers. 0 1 16

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