Derwin FrittsX-rays Renaissance-era letter sealed for centuries just virtually unfolded and read for the first time Live Science - Mindy Weisberger X-ray scans and digital reconstructions unlocked long-sealed documents. More than 600 years ago, someone intricately folded, sealed and posted a …
Derwin FrittsNeanderthals Neanderthals had the capacity to produce human-like speech, scientists claim Newschain - The Newsroom A mystery of human evolution may finally have been solved by scientists who claim Neanderthals had the ability to perceive and produce speech like us. …
Derwin FrittsGreece Greek ship carrying parts of the Parthenon is giving up more secrets Live Science - Tom Metcalfe The latest expedition by divers to the wreck of the Mentor, which sank just off the island of Kythera (also spelled Kithira and Kythira) in 1802, has …
Derwin FrittsHumanity A 4.4 million-year-old skeleton could reveal how early humans began to walk upright phys.org - Keith Randall Evolutionary expert Charles Darwin and others recognized a close evolutionary relationship between humans, chimps and gorillas based on their shared …
Derwin FrittsPrehistory The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation newscientist.com - By Laura Spinney AROUND 6200 years ago, farmers living on the eastern fringes of Europe, in what is now Ukraine, did something inexplicable. They left their neolithic …