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…...

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…...

6+ mon, 6+ day ago   (665+ words) Researchers found the ultimate ancient power tool hiding in plain sight at a Cambridge museum. In the collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is a small copper-alloy tool from a cemetery at Badari…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (546+ words) A yeast-based material turns Mars’s hostile environment into part of the construction process....

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (612+ words) Who were Arabia's first artists? Some 12,000 years ago, groups of pioneering hunter-gatherers ventured into the harsh Arabian desert. They survived thanks to fleeting watering holes — ephemeral oases that they shared with animals. But they didn’t just survive. They carved their…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (525+ words) A metalworking hub in Gaul reveals a darker side of Iron Age life. At a thriving Celtic trading center in western France, metalworkers forged weapons, keys, tools, and fittings for horses. They also made objects with a far darker purpose....