Category: Science
Ancient Egyptian Mummified ‘Hawk’ Is Actually a Stillborn Human Baby
High-resolution micro-CT scanning has shown that an Egyptian mummy thought to be a bird is really a stillborn...
Something Completely Unexpected Happened to the First Settlers of South America
As the last Ice Age was coming to an end, and as the first settlers arrived in North...
Pompeii Resident Had His Head Crushed by a Giant Stone While Fleeing Eruption
The first major discovery at a new excavation site in Pompeii is turning out to be something right...
Archaeologists Discover 29 Human Footprints From the Last Ice Age
Archaeologists working off Canada’s Pacific Coast have found 29 human footprints dating back to the end of the...
Confronted With Severe Climate Change, Ancient Britons Kept Calm and Carried On
Soon after the glaciers melted at the end of the last Ice Age, our planet was vulnerable to...
Supposedly Empty Egyptian Coffin Actually Contains a Mummy
For the past 150 years, the cedar coffin of an ancient Egyptian priestess has been on display at...
Dead Medieval Woman ‘Gave Birth’ to Baby in Coffin
Italian archaeologists have uncovered a Medieval grave containing the remains of a woman and a fetus lying between...
These Early Humans Prospered During What Should Have Been a Devastating Volcanic Winter
Around 74,000 years ago, a massive caldera erupted on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, triggering a prolonged and...
5,000-Year-Old Mummy Is Earliest Known Tattooed Woman
A new analysis of two ancient Egyptian mummies has uncovered the earliest known examples of “figural” tattoos on...
Scientists Who Doubt Neanderthal Art Must Reckon With New Evidence From These Sweet Cave Paintings
Cave paintings in Spain were produced at least 64,000 years ago, a full 20,000 years before modern humans...
