1+ week, 1+ day ago  (514+ words) An international team of scientists recently published their remarkable findings in the journal Current Biology. By analyzing nine Neanderthal teeth found in the cave, the researchers were able to identify at least seven, and possibly eight, distinct individuals. This makes…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago  (312+ words) Geographic distribution of the indigenous American individuals included in the study. Each point represents a sampling location and its size is proportional to the number of individuals in that population. (Hemanoel Passareli-Araujo/Nature) Three major dispersals shaped the genetic diversity…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (236+ words) A newly confirmed mass grave in the ancient city of Jerash, Jordan, offers chilling insight into one of history's first recorded pandemics. Hundreds of plague victims were buried within a matter of days, revealing how the Plague of Justinian devastated…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago  (321+ words) Osteoarchaeologist Jacqueline Mc Kinley of Wessex Archaeology, who excavated the grave as part of the Time Team team at Cherington, described the burial as unlike anything she had encountered before. In a statement released by Time Team Digital, she explained:…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (194+ words) The excavations were led by Maite Mascort Roca and Esther Pons Mellado have revealed a tomb housing several Roman mummies. Many were wrapped in linen intricately decorated with geometric patterns and placed alongside wooden coffins. The excavated tomb and sarcophagi…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (366+ words) Ancient Origins Harvest of the Shadows: Inside the Ozarks Crop Circle Mystery of Human DNA, Hybrid Growths, and the Bobbys What if the strangest stories coming out of the Ozarks are not folklore, hoaxes, or internet hysteria, but the opening…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (163+ words) "Because of a validation of the Monte Verde site by outside experts 29 years ago, our understanding of the date of human arrival to the Americas was fundamentally changed," Surovell explained. "We now correct the record and show that the site…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (521+ words) An archaeologist in the lower layer of the cistern. (The Lautenschl'ger Azekah Expedition) Archaeological evidence indicates that the cistern went out of use as a water reservoir around the 6th century BC, following the Babylonian conquest of Judah. When Azekah fell…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (441+ words) A genetic study has unveiled that two Neanderthals who lived approximately 10, 000 years apart in Siberia's famous Denisova Cave were distant relatives. This remarkable discovery provides the fourth complete Neanderthal genome ever recovered and offers unprecedented insight into the population structure,…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (388+ words) A fossil from Egypt hints we may have been looking in the wrong place for ape origins. A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago…...