12+ hour, 1+ min ago   (483+ words) A body pulled from the Arctic ice in 1859 has finally been given a name. Researchers at the University of Waterloo have used DNA from living descendants to identify four more sailors from Sir John Franklin‘s doomed 1845 expedition, among them…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (548+ words) Long before our species existed, someone in Africa built a wooden structure that should have rotted away millennia ago. How did it survive? At Kalambo Falls in Zambia, ancient humans shaped and fitted together large pieces of wood to build…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (614+ words) Some fingerprints are impossible to erase, even after 8,500 years. That's exactly what a team of archaeologists just discovered in an ancient Turkish settlement, frozen at the precise moment its inhabitants had to run. During an excavation in the Yeşilova Mound…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (505+ words) For 2,000 years, ancient red figures have survived on exposed cliffs in southern China despite a punishing subtropical climate. Scientists have now revealed the surprisingly sophisticated ancient technique behind their remarkable preservation. For more than 2,000 years, the Huashan rock paintings have…...

1+ mon, 10+ hour ago   (483+ words) Hidden beneath Romania for millions of years, this sealed cave remained untouched by the surface. When scientists finally explored its depths, they uncovered an environment unlike anything they had studied before. A cave hidden underground in Romania for more than…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (406+ words) Researchers have analyzed ancient ostrich eggshells from southern Africa and uncovered new evidence about how early humans created and organized visual patterns. The study, published in PLOS One under the title “Earliest geometries: A cognitive investigation of Howiesons Poort engraved…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (546+ words) Hidden beneath the waters of Australia, ancient cave bones are carrying clues about a mystery that scientists have only now begun to decode. Bones hidden in underwater caves in South Australia are giving scientists a new way to understand how…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (575+ words) Skeletons buried for thousands of years usually leave nothing behind but bone. So why do some of them still contain a brain? Scientists say the answer was hiding in plain sight all along. For decades, archaeologists have puzzled over a…...