Extinct Nile River Pyramid Branch | Sutton Hoo Dig | Leper Squirrels - Archaeology News: May 2024

Presenting the biggest discoveries and news in archaeology for the month of May 2024. I source my news from lots of places but the blog https://exploratornews.wordpress.com/ is very comprehensive and I use it to help me see which stories are ‘biggest’.
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DISCOVERIES
Prehistoric exact dates - 7000 years old
Image Credit - University of Bern https://phys.org/news/2024-05-succeed-accurately-dating-year-prehistoric.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48402-1

Tamiš River Neolithic Settlement - 7000 years old
Image Credit - Cluster ROOTS/Museum of Vojvodina Novi Sad/National Museum Zrenjanin/National Museum Pančevo
https://www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/news/064-settlement-jarkovac#:~:text=The%20newly%20discovered%20settlement%20is,by%20four%20to%20six%20ditches.

Pyramid Nile branch - 4000 years old
Image Credit - Eman Ghoneim and University of North Carolina Wilmington
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01379-7

Chu tomb complex - 2200 years old
Image Credit - Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
https://arkeonews.net/luxurious-2200-year-old-king-tomb-discovered-in-china/

Tyrian purple dye - 1800 years old
Image Credit - Wardell Armstrong
https://www.wardell-armstrong.com/tyrian-purple-discovered-at-archaeology-dig/

Leprosy squirrels - 1000-600 years old
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00446-9?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982224004469%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/03/leprosy-passed-between-medieval-squirrels-and-humans-study-suggests

Tlatelolco votive offering - 600-700 years old
Image Credit: Mauricio Marat/INAH
https://arkeonews.net/rare-ceremonial-knives-offering-discovered-in-the-great-basement-of-tlatelolco-mexico/

CURRENT EVENTS
Sutton Hoo digImage Credit -
Alex Healing, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
British Museum, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9770z10n85o
San Jose Image Credit: BIC GSJ ARC-DIMAR Verification Campaign, 2022
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/18/san-jose-shipwreck-recovery
Ancient Egyptian skull auction
Pitt Rivers museum image credit - Geni, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/may/01/egyptian-human-skulls-pitt-rivers-dorset-auction-house

ENTERTAINMENT
La Chimera - https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/06/alice-rohrwacher-tomb-raiding-chimera-looters-josh-o-connor
Terracotta trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Msxc8AiTrc&ab_channel=Netflix
Tomb Raider trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pF3ZbZRnRU