Dire wolves were first discovered in the 1850s, and many samples have been preserved in nearly perfect condition thanks to places like the La Brea tar pits in what is now Los Angeles, which are natural pits of asphalt that sucked up the bodies of pre
Ancient Greek inscription of 'Christ, born of Mary' that was used to ward off evil eye is found above the doorway of a once-magnificent church built in Israel 1,500 years ago
The team said that the image provides the earliest evidence for the presence of anatomically modern humans on Sulawesi.
A second painting of a warty pig ?" this one around 13,500 years younger ?" has also been found in the nearby Leang Balanga
While reading the works of my great-grandfather James Churchward, one may be surprised by how closely some of his material resembles that of Augustus Le Plongeon. Actually, their theories were quite dissimilar; LePlongeon placed his cradle of civiliz
Well, there exists a minority of zoologists and horse fans that think in some pockets of North America at least the real horses survived.
There is some evidence for it but this is under attack..
The Native American medicine men used horse teeth o
Israeli authorities are set to unveil previously off-limits structures within King Herod's palace-fortress Herodium, which the tyrannical Roman-era leader interred as his enormous burial plot.
Indian scientists were intensely interested in the Roopkund mystery. The lake, some thought, was a place where holy men committed ritual suicide. Or maybe the dead were a detachment of soldiers from a thirteenth-century army sent by the Sultan of Del
Ancient Roman villa packed with rare mosaics is unearthed under a block of apartments at foot of the Aventine Hill where the upper classes lived 2,000 years ago
Archaeologists in Egypt said Saturday they had found 59 well-preserved and sealed wooden coffins over recent weeks that were buried more than 2,500 years ago.
Chromium is a common addition to alloys to make materials like tool steel or stainless steel, and it's long been thought to have been invented around the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But now, archaeologists have discovered that the ancient P
A shipwreck identified in the Gulf of Mexico has thrown a light on a forgotten and dark episode in Mexican history. Archaeologists have identified a 19th-century slave ship. Before it sank, this vessel was involved in the enslavement of indigenous Ma
Viking chess! Rare complete set of a 1,000-year old battlefield strategy board game discovered by a metal detectorist in Lincolnshire is expected to fetch £1,000 at auction
As one might imagine, given the unorthodox hypothesis, not everyone is convinced that bipedal crocodiles were the source for the curious tracks. Fossil track expert Phil Manning told the BBC that while he looks forward to examining the data present
The wrecks were first identified by robots some 2km (1.2 miles) beneath the surface. The experts then used the latest technology to map and record the shipwrecks. "All the remains were carefully recorded using a suite of digital photography, HD vid
A piece of 50,000-year-old string - the oldest yet discovered - found in a cave in France has cast further doubt on the idea that Neanderthals were cognitively inferior to modern humans.
"Ancient protein analysis provides evidence for a close relationship between Homo antecessor, us (Homo sapiens), Neanderthals, and Denisovans. Our results support the idea that Homo antecessor was a sister group to the group containing Homo sapiens,
The National Museum of China announced its latest findings that a group of charcoal kilns of the late Xia Dynasty and two incomplete copper furnaces of the early Shang Dynasty were unearthed. Under one of the furnaces, a human skeleton was buried in
Cave bears were a species of bear (Ursus spelaeus) that lived in Europe and Asia that went extinct about 24,000 years ago. According to Figueirido, researchers have proposed different diets for cave bears, ranging from pure herbivory to carnivory or
The species Australopithecus afarensis inhabited East Africa more than three million years ago, and occupies a key position in the hominin family tree, as it is widely accepted to be ancestral to all later hominins, including the human lineage. "Luc
"The huge mystery, until now, was its purpose - why the ancient scribes carried out the complex task of generating and sorting the numbers on the tablet. Our research reveals that Plimpton 322 describes the shapes of right-angle triangles using
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