4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (104+ words) The painted creature inside an Etruscan tomb convinced mourners they were under its spell. A Bone Led to a Revolutionary War Mass Grave Why Scientists Buried Thousands of Undies in Soil Early Humans’ Brains Linked to Another Dimension Archaeologists Found…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (459+ words) Montbellant Hill was first home to a first-century B.C. city before Roman and medieval structures were built on top of it in the ensuing centuries. In a translated statement from the institute, the team wrote that they had discovered groupings of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (160+ words) On the latest episode of “The Astounding Pop Mech Show,” Andrew Daniels, Shawn Gorman, and John Gilpatrick discuss the tiny killer lurking inside an ancient Polish tomb. Researchers opened an ancient king’s tomb. Then they started dying. A new Pop…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (548+ words) The Celtic settlement yielded hundreds of coins, amber, jewelry, and luxury ceramics. A Celtic settlement from the second century B.C. discovered in modern-day Czech Republic has yielded an impressive haul of opulence, from hundreds of gold and silver coins to precious…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (166+ words) The human brain sometimes avoids decay for millennia while the rest of the body turns to bones. The human brain is made mostly of water, protein, carbohydrates, and fat—lots of fat. In fact, roughly 60 percent of the brain is…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (219+ words) The Watson Brake site predates the oldest pyramid in Egypt by almost 2,000 years. Most ancient peoples are assumed to have settled permanently in a region before developing agriculture, and the surplus that followed would lead to a social hierarchy, with…...