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DNA analysis of Pompeii victims rewrites the history of the 2,000-year-old tragic volcanic eruption
New DNA analysis of Pompeii victims reveals that many assumed family relationships based on proximi…
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From the sands of time: 4,000-year-old skulls reveal how ancient Egyptians tried to treat cancer!
Ancient Egyptian medical practices were incredibly advanced for their time. These early medical pra…
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Discovery of 23,000-year-old footprint fossils reshape the history of early human migration into North America
Until recently, experts believed that early humans arrived in North America around 13,500 to 16,000…
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Shells from Gujarat suggest that India’s lush monsoons might've helped attract several invaders in the past!
Periods of robust monsoons, translating to bountiful harvests, coincided with an upsurge in cultura…
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Rate of violence began to skyrocket as early humans moved into cities, fractured skull remains reveal
While one might assume that the organisation into cities could have curbed violence among "civilise…
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Pride of India: Statistician CR Rao’s influence is widespread – The Higgs Boson, shape of the heart, archaeological digs & more
Indian-American scientist Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao's work in statistics has propelled the field …
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Climate change was rampant in the ancient past. So how did our primitive ancestors survive?
The Earth was throwing an increasing number of climate tantrums over the past three million years, …
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Pompeii find reveals the secrets of life as a slave in Ancient Rome, frozen in time for almost 2,000 years by volcanic eruption
Archaeologists discovered a small bedroom used by slaves in a dig near the Roman city of Pompeii, I…
Rebecca Rommen
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Melting ice in Norway revealed a 4,000-year-old arrow that was likely lost while ancient hunters targeted reindeer — but is now a 'bull's eye for archaeology'
In recent years, the ice around the mountain in Norway has melted, exposing more ground to research…
Sebastian Cahill
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Researchers find new biomorphs hidden within Peru's mysterious Nazca lines
Their exact purpose remains unknown but some speculate the massive hillside figures were created by…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Scientists fully sequenced DNA of a man who died at Pompeii and found he may have had a disease that hindered his escape
Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago, burying Pompeii in volcanic ash. Researchers are now…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Sorry, pizza purists — a fresco from Pompeii shows Romans were eating a precursor to pizza 2,000 years ago with fruit that resembles pineapple
The painting shows a type of bread with fruit on top. Experts, however, say it's more likely to be …
Marianne Guenot
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Ancient poop contains new clues about feasts eaten at the construction of Stonehenge more than 4,500 years ago
The coprolite was found in Durrington Walls, a settlement a few miles away from Stonehenge where th…
Marianne Guenot
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Pompeii archaeologists found the remains of a man raising an arm to protect himself from caving walls during the Vesuvius eruption, showing 'the inferno' victims suffered
The newly-discovered remains of two Pompeii men showed that they likely died after the eruption, in…
Azmi Haroun
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Ancient humans used the oldest-known drinking straws to sip beer out of communal party bowls, new study suggests
Archaeologists believed the three-foot metal tubes were scepters. Instead, barley residue and built…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The world has called the archaeological wonder, Machu Picchu, the wrong name for over a century, a new report finds
It may have originally been called "Picchu" or "Huayna Picchu," meaning new or young mountain peak …
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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AI is setting humanity on the path to a new age of discovery
Recent developments have shown how algorithms can help humans decipher ancient papyrus scrolls and …
Hasan Chowdhury
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Researchers stumbled upon a box of human bones that had been missing for 100 years. They may come from Viking-age royalty.
The bones might have been placed on the wrong shelf and separated from the rest of the artifacts fr…
Aria Bendix
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A mystery woman dressed in silk and gold found buried under the London streets was from the elite of the Roman Empire, researchers say
A new book published this week tells the story of the woman buried under the Spitalfields Market in…
Sophia Ankel
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'Intellectually inferior' humans caused Neanderthals to go extinct, a new book claims
Neanderthals' extinction is one of the biggest mysteries about the species. In "The Naked Neanderth…