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Carles Lalueza-Fox -- author profile on ZME Science
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (127+ words) Carles Lalueza-Fox is a leading research expert on the retrieval and analysis of ancient genomes, including extinct hominins, past human populations, and pathogens. He is Director of the Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona and the author of several books, including…...
This 5,500-Year-Old Kish Tablet is the Oldest Written Document
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (430+ words) Beer, goats, and grains: here's what the oldest document reveals. Imagine a world without written records — no books, no laws, no way to document discoveries or communicate ideas across generations. Civilization would be trapped in a cycle of forgetfulness, with…...
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…...
We Used Satellites to Uncover 260 Mysterious Mass Graves Hidden Across the Sahara Desert
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (922+ words) We have been on a years-long campaign of satellite remote sensing of the vast desert landscapes in Eastern Sudan. This involved using satellite aerial imagery to systematically and painstakingly search for archaeological features in Atbai Desert of Eastern Sudan, a…...
A Rare 2,000-Year-Old Roman Sun Hat From Cleopatra’s Egypt Has Been Restored to Its Former Glory
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (420+ words) It's only one of three surviving Roman era hats. The hat lay flattened and moth-eaten for more than a century in a museum box. Now, the rare 2,000-year-old headpiece (made for a Roman soldier stationed in the searing heat of…...
The Secret Behind Vietnam’s 2,000-Year-Old Black Teeth Fashion Is Now Out
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (932+ words) Researchers recreated a 2,000 year old recipe to see how ancient people dyed their teeth black. Two thousand years ago, in what is now northern Vietnam, beauty did not mean bright white teeth. It meant glossy black smiles, a cultural practice…...
Photos Show the Hauntingly Preserved Cheetah Mummies Discovered Deep Inside a Saudi Arabian Sinkhole
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (963+ words) Ancient DNA from cave mummies offers a genetic roadmap for rewilding Saudi Arabia's deserts. In the dry, sun-baked expanse of northern Saudi Arabia, there are holes in the earth that lead to another world. For millennia, these underground caverns have…...
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…...
Neanderthals Were Starting Fires 400,000 Years Ago and Probably Taught Homo Sapiens Too
9+ mon, 1+ day ago (725+ words) Turns out the ability to use fire might have started long before our species, with Neanderthal ancestors. The old cliché goes like this: humans mastered fire, and with it, we conquered the world. But a plot twist is emerging from…...
The People Who Made the Hanging Coffins in China Never Really Went Away
9+ mon, 3+ day ago (762+ words) A new genetic study links China’s cliffside burials to their living descendants. Some of the weirdest archaeological relics in the world hang on the rock faces of southern China, hundreds of feet above the ground. Wooden boxes clinging to the…...