Painted altar in Maya city of Tikal reveals aftermath of ancient coup
It’s also when someone buried three babies in the courtyard, each near a corner of…
Prehistoric bone tool cache suggests advanced reasoning in early hominins
A prehistoric bone tool “factory” Bone tools shaped by knapping, however, were much rarer until…
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Study: Hot Vesuvian ash cloud really did turn a brain to glass
According to Petrone et al., usually such brain matter would be "saponified" by the extreme…
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Seven cool science stories we almost missed this month
It's a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific…
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A telltale toilet reveals “lost” site shown in Bayeux Tapestry
Seats of power The Bayeux Tapestry, showing King Harold riding to Bosham, where he attends…
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Skull long thought to be Cleopatra’s sister’s was actually a young boy
Scientists have demonstrated that an ancient human skull excavated from a tomb at Ephesos was…
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Archaeologists just mapped a Bronze Age megafortress in Georgia
A sprawling 3,500-year-old fortress offers tantalizing clues about a culture that once dotted the southern…
Studies pin down exactly when humans and Neanderthals swapped DNA
In a second study, Arev Sümer (also of the Max Planck Institute) and her colleagues…