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New study of 2,600-year-old poop suggests Iron Age miners drank beer and ate blue cheese
Prehistoric European salt miners were previously thought to mostly subsist on gruel. The finding su…
Marianne Guenot
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Researchers have found the remains of a teenager that died 7,200 years ago, revealing a group of humans previously unknown to science
The young woman was likely part of the prehistoric Toleans, which mysteriously disappeared 1,500 ye…
Marianne Guenot
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The graves in a 13,000-year-old Egyptian cemetery didn't come from a single battle, as previously thought, but a long-lasting war likely driven by climate change, new study says
Scientists made this discovery after reexamining remains from the Jebel Sahaba site, one of the ear…
Marianne Guenot
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Human bones unearthed from a German cave have altered the timeline of ancient human history
Homo sapien bones in a German cave prove early humans occupied Europe 47,500 years ago alongside Ne…
Ellyn Lapointe
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A 4,000-year-old lipstick uncovered in Iran may be the oldest ever found. It's uncannily similar to modern ones.
Humans have been using red pigment for a long time, but this could be the earliest example of a lip…
Marianne Guenot
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African skulls pillaged during German colonial rule have been matched to living relatives after DNA tests
A German museum says it is ready to return the human skulls from East Africa, which were removed un…
Marianne Guenot
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Ancient humans were getting high on hallucinogenic drugs during cave rituals 3,000 years ago, study claims
Scientists discovered psychoactive substances in Bronze Age strands of hair that had been hidden aw…
Ryan Hogg
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Scientists have completely sequenced the human Y chromosome for the first time, with huge implications for heath and evolution research
For the first time, geneticists have completely sequenced the Y chromosome, the last to be fully ma…
Jenny McGrath
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Archaeologists discovered dozens of headless bodies in a 7,000-year-old mass grave
Researchers believe their heads may have been removed in a brutal act of war or by priests as a way…
Marianne Guenot
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Nobel prize winner Svante Paabo's DNA discoveries offer clues as to what makes us human
In other words, Paabo has been awarded the prestigious prize for having sequenced the genomes of…
PTI
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Study reveals how 500 years of human exploitation has created a dangerous 'extinction vortex' in one of the world's most important forests
"These habitats are now often severely incomplete, restricted to insufficiently large forest remnan…
Jeremy Berke
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A group of our Homo erectus ancestors suffered a mysterious mass death more than 107,000 years ago. It's their last appearance in the fossil record.
By correctly dating these fossils, anthropologists can now explore who Homo erectus might have inte…
Aylin Woodward
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Scientists just figured out how much crushing force a T. rex could deliver with a bite
The well-known dinosaurs "stand out for habitually biting deeply into bones, pulverizing and digest…
Kevin Loria
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The 15 Greatest Masterpieces At The Louvre
"The world-famous Musée du Louvre houses thousands of priceless masterpieces," Kuan said. "Every ye…
Anmargaret Warner
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The Incredible Discovery Of The Oldest Depiction Of The Universe Was Almost Lost To The Black Market
"When I first heard about the Nebra Disc I thought it was a joke, indeed I thought it was a forgery…