nevinrIndia The mystery of India’s ‘lake of skeletons’ verified_publisherBBC News - Soutik BiswasHigh in the Indian Himalayas, a remote lake nestled in a snowy valley is strewn with hundreds of human skeletons. Roopkund Lake is located 5,029 metres (16,500ft) above sea level at the bottom of a steep...
nevinrPompeii Roman chariot unearthed 'almost intact' near Pompeii phys.org An ornate Roman chariot has been discovered "almost intact" near Italy's buried city of Pompeii, the archaeological park announced on Saturday, …
nevinrScientific Research The World’s Oldest Woman Doesn’t Look Like You’ve Been Told The Daily Beast - Candida Moss Almost 50 years ago, on a Sunday morning in late November 1974, a team of archaeologists in Ethiopia unearthed a 3 million-year-old skeleton of an …
nevinrCave Bear We sequenced the cave bear genome using a 360,000-year-old ear bone and had to rewrite their evolutionary history The Conversation UK - Axel Barlow and Johanna L.A. Paijmans Cave bears were giant plant eating bears that roamed Europe and northern Asia, and went extinct around 25 thousand years ago. They hibernated in …
nevinrBronze Age Rare Bronze Age spearhead discovered intact in Jersey verified_publisherBBC NewsA rare and complete metal spearhead dating back thousands of years to the Bronze Age has gone on display in Jersey after being found on the island. It was discovered on the beach at Gorey by a metal detectorist...
