A newly discovered, well-preserved dinosaur bones along with petrified trees were found in south east Utah that could provide clues about life in that region some 150 million years ago. The Bureau of Land Management called the quarry near Hanksville, “a major dinosaur fossil discovery.” An excavation revealed at least four Sauropods that are long-necked, long-tailed herbivore dinosaurs and two carnivorous ones. Animal burrows and petrified tree trunks were six feet in diameter were found nearby. The site doesn’t contain any other new species but provides scientists a chance to study more about the ecology, says Scott Foss, a paleontologist.

The fossilized dinosaurs were from the late Jurassic period as those at Dinosaur National Monument that straddles the Utah-Colorado state line, and the Cleveland-Lloyd quarry near Price. The bones were found in a sandstone channel of an ancient river. “The preservation of these dinosaurs is excellent,” Foss added. The mix of dinosaurs, trees and other species in that area may help scientists put together what life was like 145 million years to 150 million years ago, including details on ancient climate. The Bureau of Land Management is planning to close the site to conduct an environmental assessment for continued work in the area. The agency isn’t disclosing the precise location of the findings due to security concerns.

Archaeologists recently discovered a bunch of human bones in the NYC’s Washington Square Park on last Monday. They found a bunch of human bones which includes two full skeletons. They already discovered these bones on one of the last three excavations. The park department says that they were little surprised – an expected 20,000 bodies recline under the Square Park.

They added that the bones will send to a proper investigation, before proper reburial. If finding bones in the heart of NYC has not caused much of arouse, it’s because one can often find much more deathly things on the NYC’s Washington City’s streets.

In the late 1700’s, long before the park became the ultimate purpose to assemble for various political rallies, cop nickel bags of oregano, it functioned as a mass burial ground as the yellow fever widespread devastated the city’s growing population. The park would go on to have a long and gloomy relationship with death, throughout the turn of the 19th century it was the sight of a public scaffold where a great many African slaves, indentured Irish, highwaymen and assorted unfortunates saw their demise. It was also a designated dueling ground, before the practice was outlawed in 1828.

The Iron Pillar in Delhi, India has withstood corrosion for over 1,600 years has continues to attract most of the archaeologists and scientists who like to make research on the secret behinds its strength and the way it is designed.

A group of archaeologist team from across various countries has recommended the Indian Government to allow research on the Iron pillar to find out its age, as well as for upkeep of its secretive part and the passive film that has sealed it through the ages.

"The Archaeological Survey of India has agreed to allow the use of well-established non-invasive techniques to ascertain as to when be the pillar built and its material aspects. But the efficacy of the techniques should be established by testing other ancient iron objects such as Iron Pillar at Dhar and Iron Beams at Konark," Director, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Dr Baldev Raj, who was a member of the panel that made the recommendations, said.

Earlier studies, beginning in 1961, have thrown some light on the composition and the microstructure of the "rustless wonder", but difference versions exist on the scientific dating of the pillar, Professor R Balasubramaniam, a scientist at IIT Kanpur who has conducted extensive research on the pillar, said.

The first stage of the excavation started at the Aanakkara site near Thirthala was done on Friday and the team of archaeologists left the site with findings dating right back to the Megalithic and Mesolithic periods. The second stage would further start in August and the district panchayat has committed all maintenance for the mission.

The area panchayat has also determined to take up the issue with the State and Central Governments, said Dr K P Shajan who was one of the members among the excavation team. “We hope to get some financial assistance from the Department of Culture at the Center for the next phase of excavation”, he added. The excavation is being carried out under the direction of the Director of the School of Social Sciences of the Mahatma Gandhi University Prof Rajan Gurukkal.

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered the “missing pyramid” of a pharaoh and a traditional demo road where high priests had mummified remains of hallowed bulls, Egypt’s relics chief stated Thursday. Zahi Hawass stated the pyramid — of which only the base remains — is known to be that of King Menkauhor, an unclear pharaoh who ruled for only eight years, which was actually more than 4,000 years ago.

In 1842, German archaeologist Karl Richard Lepsius said Menkauhor’s pyramid among his discover at Saqqara, naming it the “Headless Pyramid” as its top was missing, Hawass stated. But in fact desert sands enclosed Lepsius’ discovery, and no archaeologist were able to find this out since then. “We have filled the gap of the missing pyramid,” Hawass told reporters on a tour of the discoveries at Saqqara, the necropolis and committal site of the rulers of old Memphis, the capital of Egypt’s Old Kingdom, south of Cairo. Only the pyramid’s base — or the superstructure as archaeologists’ name it was discovered after a 25-foot-high heap of sand was taken out over the past year and a half by Hawass’ team.