News Roman skeletons found holding hands were both menbbc.co.uk - BBC News Researchers have found that a couple of skeletons known as the Lovers of Modena, because they are holding hands, were both men.
Archaeology Dental Plaque Offers Clues to Diet of Irish Famine Victimsarchaeology.org EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND—According to a report in The Belfast Telegraph, analysis of dental plaque obtained from the teeth of 42 people buried in mass …
iPhone This Ancient Belt Buckle Retrieved from ‘Russian Atlantis’ Looks Like a Bedazzled iPhone Case | Live ScienceLive Science From the depths of Russia's "Atlantis" — a famed archaeological site in southern Siberia that lies underwater for most of the year — archaeologists …
DNA 1.7-Million-Year-Old Rhino Tooth Provides Oldest DNA Data Ever Studiedsmithsonianmag.com - Jason Daley DNA sequencing has revolutionized the way researchers study evolution and animal taxonomy. But DNA has its limits—it’s a fragile molecule that …
Asia The formation of human populations in South and Central Asiasciencemag.org To elucidate the extent to which the major cultural transformations of farming, pastoralism, and shifts in the distribution of languages in Eurasia …
Bible A history of the Bible: who wrote it and when?historyextra.com - Amir Adhamy The origins of the Bible are still cloaked in mystery. When was it written? Who wrote it? And how reliable is it as an historical record? Spencer Day …
History Christ’s communists: the radical religious sect that challenged the Holy Roman Empirehistoryextra.com - HistoryExtraAdmin Six centuries ago in Bohemia, a dissenter army led by a one-eyed warrior waged war on the Holy Roman Empire. Tom Holland tells the story of the …
Dinosaurs Last Day of The Dinosaurs Revealed in Stunning Glimpse of Asteroid DisasterScienceAlert - Michelle Starr Sixty-six million years ago, Earth had a very bad day indeed. A giant asteroid up to 81 kilometres (50 miles) across smashed into the coast of what …
Culture Found: A Windfall of Neanderthal Footprints in FranceAtlas Obscura - Isaac Schultz Of the variety of ancient hominins who have roamed this planet, Neanderthals are among the most recently departed. Long stigmatized as lumbering, …
Science New 'frozen dragon' pterosaur found hiding in plain sightNational Geographic - Michael GreshkoThe flying reptile was mostly head and neck—and had at least a 16-foot wingspan, if not bigger. In the icy badlands of Alberta, paleontologists have found a “frozen dragon”: a new genus of pterosaur that
Science Last day of the dinosaurs' reign captured in stunning detailNational Geographic - Maya Wei-HaasRocks from deep inside the Chicxulub impact crater show what happened in the minutes to hours after one of our planet’s most catastrophic events. Inch by inch, the team pulled up the skinny core of ghostly
Ancient History Ancient Tablets May Reveal What Destroyed Minoan Civilizationhaaretz.com - Philippe Bohstrom The mystery of what happened to the Minoan civilization has tormented archaeologists for over a century, and the tale has now taken a new twist. …
History The finding of the oldest human skull changes evolution scienceQuartz - Hester HanegraefThe recent discovery of a 3.8m-year-old cranium (skull without the lower jaw) is the hottest topic of conversation among palaeoanthropologists right now. But fossils are found all the time, so why is cranium
Volcanoes ‘Mysterious’ Volcanic Eruption That Plunged Europe Into The Dark Ages Pinpointed In Central AmericaForbes - David Bressan"And it came about during this year that a most dread portent took place. For the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during this whole year, and it seemed exceedingly like the
Science Geologists uncover history of lost continent buried beneath Europesciencemag.org - Sid Perkins Forget the legendary lost continent of Atlantis. Geologists have reconstructed, time slice by time slice, a nearly quarter-of-a-billion-year-long …
Archaeology What Did Ancient Egyptians Really Eat? Ancient Egyptian Nutrition You Need To Knowboredpanda.com - AJ Barbara Did the ancient Egyptians eat like us? If you’re a vegetarian, tucking in along the Nile thousands of years ago would have felt just like home. In …
Dead Sea Dead Sea scrolls study raises new questions over texts' originsThe Guardian - Nicola DavisThe Dead Sea scrolls have given up fresh secrets, with researchers saying they have identified a previously unknown technique used to prepare one of the most remarkable scrolls of the collection. Scientists
Stonehenge Drought Has Revealed Spain's Long-Submerged 'Stonehenge'Atlas Obscura - Alyssa McMurtry This summer has been unusually scorching across Europe and beyond, and things have only grown more intense in the already hot and dry region of …
Archaeology A New Look at a Denisovan Digit - Archaeology Magazinearchaeology.org - Jessica E. Saraceni PARIS, FRANCE—Nature News reports that palaeogeneticist Eva-Maria Geigl of the Institute Jacques Monod and her colleagues have digitally …
Fossils Lost Denisovan bone reveals surprisingly human-like fingernature.com - Ewen Callaway Photos of missing fossil show these ancient hominins had slimmer digits than their Neanderthal relatives. A new analysis of a finger bone used to …
Science (India) Genome of nearly 5000-year-old woman links modern Indians to ancient civilizationsciencemag.org - Michael Price At roughly the same time that ancient Egyptians were constructing their first great pyramids and Mesopotamians were building monumental temples and …
West Michigan Almost all life on Earth was wiped out 2 billion years ago, a new study saysfox17online.com - CNN Wire Researchers took 2 billion-year-old barite samples from Canada's Belcher Islands, seen here, to determine that almost 100% of life was wiped out …
Medieval Face of Highland clansman laid to rest in six-headed burial revealedscotsman.com - Alison Campsie The face of a 15th Century clansman who was laid to rest in a highly unusual six-headed burial has been revealed. Experts have reconstructed the face …
Medieval Leprechaun 'is not a native Irish word' new dictionary revealsBBC News - Nuala McCannLeprechauns may be considered quintessentially Irish, but research suggests this perception is blarney. The word "leprechaun" is not a native Irish one, scholars have said. They have uncovered hundreds
Fossils The worm that turned : fossils shed light on early animal movement24matins.uk - By Sara HUSSEIN, More than half a billion years ago, a worm-like creature wriggled its last, creating a groove preserved as a fossil that offers new insights into …
Turtles Found: Fossilized Tracks of Baby Sea Turtles in South AfricaAtlas Obscura - Sabrina Imbler More than 100,000 years ago, a clutch of sea turtles hatched on the shores of South Africa. After breaking free of their soft, milk-colored shells, …
Neanderthals Morphology of the Denisovan phalanx closer to modern humans than to Neanderthalssciencemag.org • J. Krause, • Q. Fu, • J. M. Good, • B. Viola, • M. V. Shunkov, • A. P. Derevianko, • S. Pääbo , The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of an unknown hominin from …
Dinosaurs New discovery shows how T. rex kept its brain coolNational Geographic - John PickrellIt’s hard to keep big heads cool. Tissues rich with blood vessels solved the problem for some dinosaurs. To ward off overheating, large animals such as elephants and rhinos had to evolve strategies to
Play buttonCulture The History of Europe from 400 BC to the Present, Animated in 12 Minutesopenculture.com - by Colin Marshall What does the future of Europe look like? Geopolitical times such as these do make one ponder such questions as, say, "In what shape (if any) will …
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