A study of ancient Egyptian mummies has shown that schistosomiasis and malaria hounded the pharaohs. The Nile likely dictated which diseases were most common in ancient Egypt and Nubia. Thirty-one ...
What they could find included the skeletal remains of three babies, a child, two adolescents and 18 adults, along with ...
Edu Survivencia was exploring caves in Monterrey, Mexico, in a protected area called Cerro de las Mitras, when he discovered ...
Ancient Egypt—a civilization that was one of the most powerful the world has ever seen and which lasted for nearly 3,000 years—was among the first to mummify its dead, providing us a window ...
A Peruvian cave packed with hundreds of pre-Hispanic artifacts has some believing in aliens, spurring grave robbers to steal the mummies and other historical items to sell on the black market.
Ancient humans had clogged arteries thousands of years before smoking, cinnamon buns, caramel macchiatos, and couch potatoes were in style. 1,2 Take for instance Ötzi the Iceman, who died over 5000 ...
Scientists have discovered an ancient amphibian ancestor that lived 270 million years ago and named it in honour of the iconic Muppet character Kermit the Frog. The extinct species, which has been ...
Animals went bioluminescent 273 million years earlier than scientists previously thought and in a completely different species.
Apr. 19, 2024 — The Dura-Europos site in modern-day Syria is famous for its exceptional state of preservation. Like Pompeii, this ancient city has yielded many great discoveries, and serves as a ...
Researchers have found microbes thriving 13 feet beneath the scorched surface of Chile's Atacama Desert, marking the deepest ...
Apr. 11, 2024 — Traces of DNA in the stomachs of predatory snails give a team og geobiologists new insights into the ecology of ... DNA Study IDs Descendants of George Washington from Unmarked ...