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In what wasn’t exactly the tax evasion trial of the century – given that it took place in the second century – the charges faced by…
Iceberg calving from a Greenland glacier can carry rocks to distant coasts Professor Ross Mitchell The rocks transported by icebergs from Greenland to Iceland add to…
Since it was discovered during the excavation of Heinrich Schlimann in the legendary fortress city of Troy, Depas Amphikypellon – The cylindrical goblet with two curved…
The light of Lyman Afa from Jades-GS-Z13-1 took us nearly 13.47 billion to contact us, as it dates back just 330 million years from the Big…
New research shows that satiety-inducing molecules called bombesins are present not only in humans and other vertebrates, but also invertebrates such as starfish and their marine…
Relief from the palace of Ashbanipal showing him in a tankBritish Museum/Odey Hussein It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge. This is…
Fossil feathers are usually preserved or embedded in amber as impressions of carbonaceous membranes and lake sediments and marine sediments, but are rarely mineralized. In a…
Who were the first inhabitants of Western Europe, what their physical characteristics were, and where they lived are some of the pending questions in the study…
A primitive amphibian called the Temnospondyls survived the aftermath of the end-of-permian mass extinction that occurred about 252 million years ago. University of Bristol. Reconstruction of…
Paleontologists have documented a collection of bone tools from one horizon, 1.5 million years ago, in Tanzania’s All-Bai Valley. These bone tools preceded more than a…
A team of geologists from Curtin University discovered clear evidence of a high-speed impact that occurred 3.47 billion years ago (Archean EON) in the heart of…
Washington – Early Man utilized animal bones to create cutting tools 1.5 million years ago on a regular basis.A recent discovery of 27 sculptures and sharp…
New research suggests that Mars once was the perfect holiday destination (if they were willing to overlook radiation exposure or lack of food sources), but also…
Culex Pipiens f. Molester It is a species of mosquito found in cities around the worldBlickWinkel / Alamy Stock Photo The shape of mosquitoes associated with…
Vegavis Iaai was an ancient relative of ducks and geese, but it dived for fish like graves and runes Mark Whitton The 69 million-year-old skull found…
The team of the planetary researcher led by Caltech has decided on a chemical mechanism that can maintain sufficient warmth in the early days of ancient…
This Papirus, written in Greek, visited the area in 129/130 AD, and in front of Jewish or Roman officials in Arabia in the reign of the…
Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have discovered the remains of a Byzantine monastery with a colorful mosaic floor and Greek inscriptions, an ancient wine…
Recently, archaeologists uncovered the ancient city of Pompeii, preserved under volcanic ash for around 2,000 years. The discovery of a massive private bathhouse, believed to be…
A stone tablet with a sun motif discovered on the Danish island of BornholmAntiquity Publications/John Lee, National Museum of Denmark Hundreds of mysterious carved “sun stones”…
Late Iron Age Durotrigan burial at Winterbourne Kingston, Dorset, England bournemouth university Genetic analysis of people buried in a 2,000-year-old cemetery in southern England supports the…
To study the history of migration and movement in the Ukrainian region, with a particular focus on Iron Age and Medieval migrant populations, the scientists generated…
An archaeologist from Oxford Cotswold Archeology (OCA) has made an exciting discovery of 321 11th-century AD silver coins (319 full pennies and 2 cut halfpence) in…
The tattooed hand of a 1200 year old mummy from PeruMichael Pittman and Thomas G. Kaye Laser scanning of a South American mummy reveals the intricate…
exposed white bark pineGregory Pederson Melting ice in the Rocky Mountains has led to the discovery of a 5,900-year-old white bark pine forest. Scientists discovered more…
High-resolution UAV-based aerial survey of the massive Bronze Age fortress Domanissis Gora in Georgia, South Caucasus, reveals the extent of a large external fortification system and…
Digital model of an ancient mollusk punk ferox and emo swirl, Created from X-ray scans of fossilsSutton et al. Nature (2025) Two prehistoric marine mollusk fossils…
overview Lead pollution likely lowered the average IQ of ancient Rome by 2.5 to 3 points, a study has found. The study is based on analysis…
Workers excavating clay at a limestone quarry in southern England stumbled upon a unique bump, leading to the discovery of a “dinosaur highway” and approximately 200…
Paleontologists from the New York State Museum and New York University Orange, New York, unearthed the fossilized remains of an adult mastodon near Scotchtown, New York,…
Saturn’s icy rings may be much older than they appear, as they are resistant to contamination from collisions with rocky debris. Hyodo others. This suggests that…
Reconstruction of the oldest known gorgonopsianhenry sutherland sharpe The earliest known sabertooths hunted large prey 270 million years ago. The newly discovered remains could help explain…
Scientists sequenced and analyzed the genomes of seven people who lived between 42,000 and 49,000 years ago in Ranis, Germany, and Zlatiks, Czech Republic. As a…
overview Many people carry small pieces of Neanderthal DNA, evidence of interbreeding between Neanderthals and ancient human ancestors. Two new studies suggest that interbreeding occurred during…
The Shengshan culture of the lower Yangtze region of ancient China plays a central role in understanding the origins of rice cultivation and early alcoholic fermentation.…
New Zealand paleontologists have discovered a partial skeleton. platypterygoid ichthyosaur It dates back to the Cretaceous period. a pair of Platypterygius sp. Image credit: Dmitry Bogdanov…
Homo juruensis Emerging human species, including the mysterious Denisovans and several hominid fossils from Tibet, Taiwan and Laos, lived in East Asia from about 300,000 to…
Several groups of carnivorous dinosaurs – Tyrannosaurus, Spinosaurus, and their members Velociraptor The family crept into the Bexhill-on-Sea region of present-day East Sussex, England, about 135…
There are no signs of population stratification in the Linear Pottery Culture (LBK) communities that first spread agriculture across much of Europe, according to a new…
overview Ancient footprints discovered in Kenya belong to two different species of human relatives who walked on the same ground at the same time, a study…