Most of Stonehenge’s large boulders share origin in west woods, Wiltshire. Most of the hulking sandstone boulders — called sarsens — that make up the…
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The researchers worked for example with samples from an excavation in Oxford: A mass grave where more than 30 skeletons were discovered. One of the…
A 1200-year-old smallpox-infected Viking skeleton found in Öland, Sweden. Credit: The Swedish National Heritage Board Scientists have discovered extinct strains of smallpox in the teeth…
This is a CGI reconstruction of Thomas Beckets shrine. Credit: John Jenkins Released on the 800th anniversary of the creation of Saint Thomas Becket’s shrine,…
Comparisons between original and altered metallic colors in cleptine wasps. Credit: NIGPAS Nature is full of colors, from the radiant shine of a peacock’s feathers…
Co-author Anne-Laure Decombeix excavating the Barraba fossil site during an expedition in 2013. Credit: Antoine Champreux Antoine Champreux, a PhD student in the Global Ecology…
A slice of ground-penetrating radar data from Falerii Novi, revealing the outlines of the town’s buildings. Credit: L. Verdonck The city rises: Archaeologists have revealed…
This is an aerial view of Por-Bajin from the west. The complex is situated on an island in a lake. Scientists have pinned its construction…
A reconstruction of the ancient landscape of South Korea with crocodile track-makers. Credit: Dr Anthony Romilio University of Colorado Denver researcher Marin Lockley was a…
A reconstruction of the ancient landscape of South Korea with crocodile track-makers. Credit: Dr. Anthony Romilio An international research team has been stunned to discover…
The man in grave 54 from the Ajvide Pitted Ware burial ground on Gotland is buried flat on his back, which is typical of Pitted…
Big theropod dinosaurs such as Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus ate pretty much everything — including each other, according to a new study. Credit: Brian Engh Researchers…
Western cavity adjacent to Pudjinuk Rockshelter No. 1 facing west (note that the entrance to the rockshelter is partially concealed from this vantage point). Photo…
Skull of Qihe 2, a ~8,400-year-old individual from Qihe Cave, Fujian, China. Credit: FAN Xuechun New ancient genomic research reveals information about human history in…
Looking out at the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain from the cave entrance at the Pinnacle Point, South Africa, research site–left, 200,000 years ago during glacial phases and…
Göbekli Tepe, Enclosure C. Credit: Gil Haklay/AFTAU Hunter-gatherers built colossal Göbekli Tepe 11,500 years ago in today’s Turkey as a single structure of ritual significance,…
Stone artifacts from the Initial Upper Paleolithic at Bacho Kiro Cave: 1-3, 5-7 Pointed blades and fragments from Layer I; 4 Sandstone bead with morphology…
Stone artifacts from the Initial Upper Paleolithic at Bacho Kiro Cave: 1-3, 5-7 Pointed blades and fragments from Layer I; 4 Sandstone bead with morphology…
Evidence continues to mount that the Neandertals, who lived in Europe and Asia until about 40,000 years ago, were more sophisticated people than once thought.…