DNA From Cave Dirt Unearths Genetic Roots of the Red Lady of El Mirón todayheadline
In the cave of El Mirón in northern Spain, intrigue surrounds a woman who was laid to rest there 19,000 ...
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Art and Science Combine to Reconstruct the Faces of Our Ancestors todayheadline
The story of Homo sapiens is written largely in artifacts. Countless tools, potsherds, and other relics line museum shelves, illuminating ...
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AI Revives 2,000-Year-Old Roman Scroll Burned in Mount Vesuvius Eruption todayheadline
A 2,000-year-old Roman scroll, scorched beyond repair, has miraculously been unfurled with the help of X-ray scanning and artificial intelligence. ...
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The Edwin Smith Papyrus Sheds Light on Ancient Egyptian Medicine todayheadline
In 1862, an American antiquities dealer was in an Egyptian marketplace, squinting at a scroll. The scroll was written in ...
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Rare, Late Pleistocene Human Remains in Japan Turn Out to be Bear Bones todayheadline
The Ushikawa man fossils found in the late 1950s turns out not to be bona fide.After the bones were discovered ...
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Largest Known Private Bathhouse Likely Wowed House Guests in Ancient Pompeii todayheadline
Before the ash of Mount Vesuvius buried the city of Pompeii in 79 C.E., some of the city’s elites would ...
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To Survive Volcanic Winter, Stone-Age Europeans Sacrificed Sun Stones todayheadline
To the Stone Age agriculturalists on Bornholm, a Danish island off the coast of Sweden, the best way to deal ...
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Ancient society may have carved ‘sun stones’ to end volcanic winter todayheadline
Stone plaques with sun motifs found on Bornholm island, DenmarkAntiquity Publications/John Lee, National Museum of Denmark Hundreds of mysterious engraved ...
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Medieval Solar Compasses May Have Guided Viking Sailors todayheadline
During their prime, the Vikings mastered the seas and went on to make wide-spanning voyages by boat. But how exactly ...
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Starch Traces on Stone Tools Push Back Evidence of Hominid Plant Prep by 400,000 Years todayheadline
Sometimes it’s good not to wash the dishes. Food preparation tools recovered from an Israel archeological excavation that started in ...
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