Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

Scientists have successfully extracted the DNA of ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. This is ...

Archaeologists often focus on what skeletal remains can tell about how and when ancient peoples died. But an individual’s ...

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LEVITATION. Ancient wonders like the pyramids of Giza, Stonehenge, and Nan Madol were built with stones so massive, modern science still struggles to explain how they were moved. Some researchers ...

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

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"A plague is upon us'' may have been a common phrase in ancient Jordan, where countless people perished from a mysterious ...

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The pre-Roman baths of Pompeii would have been seriously grotty, according to an analysis of mineral deposits.