4+ week, 1+ day ago   (466+ words) A new study from the University of Staffordshire has found health risks linked to online sales of mummified human as well as animal remains. Researchers reviewed 128 posts from social media, online stores, e-commerce sites, as well as auction houses. Human…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (619+ words) Necropolis near Luxor offers a detailed record of how ancient Egyptians reused burial spaces over several centuries....

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (683+ words) Ancient Etruscan tombs may have been designed to shape how people saw, heard and felt during...also tested the tombs under conditions closer to ancient use. Their models used candlelight instead of...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (547+ words) Archaeologists have found 11 more carved obsidian arrowheads at Tepecik-Çiftlik in Cappadocia, Turkey. The finds raise the site’s total to 12 and add to a regional group of 54 known examples. The arrowheads date to the Neolithic, between the late eighth and seventh…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (503+ words) A new study pushes back the earliest known millet consumption in Bronze Age Europe by more than a century. Researchers found evidence of millet eating in southeastern Poland around 1590 BCE. The finding comes from a study of human remains from…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (486+ words) daily life and settlement in the area around the ancient temple. The excavation also produced stone blocks,...from the Great Temple of Ptah, the main temple of ancient Memphis. The Temple of Sekhmet formed part of...later served as a…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (528+ words) back at least 25,000 years and pushes the known history of habitual betel nut drug use far deeper into...effect from the released compound. Tests of the ancient teeth also found biomolecular traces consistent...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (514+ words) northern Arabia as well. The researchers define an ancient brand through several signs. These include a clear...