A mystery dating back nearly a century about a skull believed to belong to Cleopatra's murdered half-sister has been solved ...

Thanks to Radiocarbon in Tree-Rings' Experts Learn Timing of 'Cataclysmic' Solar Storm That Hit Earth Around 2687 Years Ago Scientists using their particular method of analysis have finally ...

At the Laboratory of Chronology, we conduct hundreds of radiocarbon analyses each year for archaeologists, geologists, environmental scientists, and industry. Timelines from carbon When an organism ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is a ...

AN early occupation site was located at Taruga, southeast of Abuja, in Niger Province of Northern Nigeria in November 1960, and fourteen exploratory trenches were dug by me early in January, 1961 ...

Radiocarbon dating has revolutionized the study of archaeological specimens, but it remains something of an art. Fluctuations in the 14 C content of the atmosphere over time make calibration ...

In 1940 Martin Kamen discovered radioactive carbon-14 (an isotope of carbon) and found that it had a half-life of about 5,700 years. Scientists had also found that some of the nitrogen in the ...

So what's the story behind radiocarbon dating? It's not a love story, to be sure. Rather, it's a way to determine the age of organic remains such as bone, teeth, and seeds by finding out how much ...

BRAMS is a new state-of-the-art radiocarbon dating facility at the University of Bristol. Jointly based in the Schools of Chemistry and Arts, BRAMS provides a radiocarbon dating service to both ...

Archaeologists from the International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies, Italy, along with the Underwater ...

A detailed investigation of a wooden shipwreck discovered off the Mazandaran coast in southern Iran shed light on maritime ...