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Scientists Found a Real Mummy’s Curse Hiding in the Online Trade in Human Remains – ZME Science
1+ week, 5+ day ago (984+ words) Online sales of mummified remains may expose buyers, sellers and postal workers to hidden hazards. Disturb the dead and disaster may follow. Such is the pharaohs’ curse, the old legend that opening a tomb or handling a mummy could bring…...
These Mysterious Ice Age Cave Symbols May Actually Be the First Image of Mind-Altering Plants
4+ week, 2+ day ago (698+ words) It's hard to say for sure, but the similarities are clear. Deep in the El Castillo cave in northern Spain, up a side passage off the main pathway, there is a small painted panel most visitors would walk straight past....
Archaeologists Found 77 Headless Bodies in 7,000-Year-Old Slovakian Village and There's no Clear Explanation
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (108+ words) A 7,000-year-old village may have practiced a haunting skull ritual that left bodies behind...
I Went Looking for the Origins of Clothing and Nearly Got Hypothermia
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (704+ words) Home → Science → Anthropology An archaeologist uses climate data and tailoring tools to trace the invention and evolution of apparel in the world's colder climates. Not long ago, I left my home in sunny Australia to join an archaeological dig in…...
What's the Oldest River In the World? It's So Old It Passed Through Pangea
4+ mon, 4+ day ago (973+ words) It's not easy figuring out the age of a river....
Ancient Maya Hauled 'Little Fat Dogs' 400 Miles Across The Jungle. Sometimes It Was Just to Eat Them
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (674+ words) New chemical analysis reveals ancient Maya elites transported their prized dogs across hundreds of miles....
How People Have Been Using Their Hands to Secretely Store Vast Amounts of Information For Over 1,000 years
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1005+ words) The ancient trick to memorizing anything fits right inside your own pocket. No one knows who made a particular drawing of an 8th-century monk, perhaps a member of an esoteric Buddhist cult traveling the Silk Road. Nonetheless, the piece sat…...
Bizarre Dinosaur With a Giant Sword-Shaped Crest Discovered During the 'Expedition of the Century' in African Desert
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (1703+ words) A newly discovered Spinosaurus reignites fierce debate over whether these giant predators could actually swim. The Sahara Desert hides its secrets well. Under the scorching sun in a remote region of Niger, paleontologist Daniel Vidal spotted a strange bone protruding…...
A Twisted Fossil Jaw Reveals a Strange 275-Million-Year-Old Animal
6+ mon, 6+ day ago (669+ words) A bizarre ancient swamp creature just proved that evolution is much messier than we thought. Paleontologists surveying a dry riverbed in northeastern Brazil repeatedly encountered the same type of fossil: a lower jaw about six inches long, curved and thick,…...
Newly Discovered 125-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Had Hollow Spikes That Are Unlike Anything Seen Before
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (595+ words) Home → Science → Paleontology A newly discovered dinosaur carried hollow spikes never seen before in its kind. A fossil discovered in northeastern China has revealed unusual skin structures in an ornithischian dinosaur that lived about 125 million years ago. The skin impressions…...