Clue to Disease’s Spread in a 6,200-Year-Old Grave
The oldest Schistosoma egg ever found was unearthed recently in an archaeological dig in Syria, and its surroundings suggest that ancient Mesopotamians may have contributed to the spread of...
View ArticleA 1.8 million year old skull indicates there may have been just one human...
A new paper published in Science details a 1.8 million year old skull. The skull find has stirred up debate amongst palaeoanthropologists, as the authors of the new paper have asserted that the hominid...
View ArticlePristine 40,000-year-old mammoth skeleton uncovered in North Texas
By Heather Alexander This nearly complete mammoth skeleton was found by the McEwen family in a gravel pit in Ellis County, North Texas. The family donated the potentially 40,000 year old find to the...
View ArticleGirl Is Frozen For 500 Years, Still Looks Alive
When they found her in 1999 on an Argentinian volcano they were incredibly surprised by her appearance. Although she had been dead for the past 500 years, she still looked alive. Scientists call her...
View Article1,000-year-old mummified monk revealed inside a statue for Buddha
A statue of a sitting Buddha that came from China to Netherlands, shocked the scientists after CT scan when it revealed a mummified Buddhist monk sitting in a lotus position inside the statue. After...
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