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The world's largest human poop is a 1200-year-old Viking treasure
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (517+ words) Home → Science → History Discovered beneath a Lloyds Bank in York, the world's largest fossilized human poop is a scientific treasure. History remembers warriors for their conquests and kings for their reigns. But this one Viking left behind something more tangible…...
How a Chess Game Over the Telegraph in 1844 Accidentally Created the First E-sport
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (1201+ words) Home → Features → Culture → Culture & Society Before the internet, Victorian innovators used the electric telegraph to play chess across the world. On a cold November afternoon in 1844, players in Washington opened a chess game in the old, familiar way, with a…...
Roman Doctors Used Human Feces as Medicine and Now We Have Chemical Proof
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (574+ words) Chemical traces show Romans mixed human feces with thyme for treatment. In the storage rooms of a museum in western Turkey, an archaeologist noticed an unexpected residue inside a small Roman glass vessel. Dark-brown flakes still clung to the interior....
Scientists Compared Neanderthal Brains with Modern Humans and Found Something Surprising
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (807+ words) Brain size can matter across the broad sweep of primate evolution but among humans isn't the best way to estimate intelligence....
Could the Oldest Human Story Really Be 100,000 Years Old?
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (626+ words) Home → Science → History The oldest stories we tell might be older than humanity's exodus. For as long as humans have existed, they have looked to the sky. There are thousands and thousands of different myths and legends linked to stars…...
Scientists Found a Real Mummy’s Curse Hiding in the Online Trade in Human Remains
2+ week, 1+ day ago (620+ words) Online sales of mummified remains may expose buyers, sellers and postal workers to hidden hazards....
The Moai Statues Were Really "Walked" to Their Platforms
11+ mon, 4+ day ago (812+ words) This ancient puzzle solved not with brute force, but with clever physics. The towering Easter Island moai have always stirred wonder and curiosity. But how these massive sculptures got from quarry to platform has long been a mystery. The smaller…...
Are 1 in 200 Men Really Descended from Genghis Khan? Ancient DNA Shows We Were Probably Wrong
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (643+ words) Home → Features → Natural Sciences → Biology → Genetics You probably are not related to Genghis Khan. For a long time, we’ve been sold the idea that Genghis Khan, the 13th-century founder of the Mongol Empire, was so phenomenally prolific that one in…...
Turkey’s Megalithic Site Göbeklitepe Is Often Called The World's First Temple. Is This Actually True?
3+ week, 5+ day ago (21+ words) Credit: Tas Tepeler. While shooting a documentary at Göbeklitepe, I encountered strikingly different historical interpretations of the site. An...
A Mathematical Model Suggests Humans Outbred Neanderthals Into Oblivion
9+ mon, 4+ week ago (533+ words) Humans have many evolutionary advantages. Getting frisky may be one of them. For over a century, we’ve told ourselves a comfortable evolutionary story about our species. Neanderthals were hanging around when our ancestors showed up, but they were brutish, simple…...