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Ice age children frolicked in ‘giant sloth puddles’, footprints reveal
Over 11,000 years ago, children accompanied by their families on a journey through what is now White Sands National Park...
Pregnant Egyptian mummy ‘Mysterious Lady’ may have died of cancer
The Mysterious Lady, a mummy from the Warsaw Mummy Project's collection, has recently been the focus of research indicating that...
Tooth-telling brings to light earliest humans from southern Africa
Fossil tooth analysis conducted by Dr. Renaud Joannes-Boyau, a geochemist at Southern Cross University, has played a crucial role in...
Rare human skeleton from the battle of waterloo unearthed in Belgium
A human skeleton, amputated limbs, and the bones of at least three horses were discovered during an archaeological dig. The...
Russian burials from 8,200 years ago contain pendants made of human bone
Approximately a century ago, archaeologists excavating an 8,200-year-old graveyard in northwestern Russia stumbled upon bone and animal-tooth pendants buried alongside...
2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy likely had cancer, according to new research
A study published on Thursday indicated that an analysis of the remains of a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy revealed that she...
A speared man and a wealthy woman are buried in a 1,600-year-old Anglo-Saxon cemetery
A wealthy pagan burial ground, dating from the first years of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain during the fifth century...
Tooth isotopes offer window into the early colonial history of South Australia
New methods of archaeological investigation have revealed the origins of 13 early settlers in South Australia who were buried in...
Oil drilling reveals cemetery with giant urn-like tombs in southwest Iran
An oil drilling project off the river Karun in Ahvaz, southwest Iran, accidentally unearthed an ancient cemetery that contains urn-like...
Early stone tools were not rocket science
Research conducted by scholars from the University of Tübingen challenges long-standing assumptions regarding the origins of human culture through stone...