This image shows comparisons among Peking Man, Maba, Jinniushan, Dali and Harbin crania (from left to right). Credit: Kai Geng A near-perfectly preserved ancient human…
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Static skull, mandible, and parietal orthographic. Credit: Tel Aviv University Dramatic Discovery in Israeli Excavation The discovery of a new Homo group in this region,…
Credit: University of Texas at Arlington Underwater archaeology team finds ancient obsidian flakes 2,000 miles from quarry. An underwater archaeologist from The University of Texas…
February 17, 2020 The issuing of General Order No. 3 by Union troops on June 19, 1865, marked the official end of slavery in Texas…
Research from the University of Kent’s School of Anthropology and Conservation has discovered that one of the earliest stone tool cultures, known as the Acheulean,…
The skull of Peştera Muierii 1, which entire genome is now successfully sequenced. Credit: Mattias Jakobsson For the first time, researchers have successfully sequenced the…
Archival photograph illustrating the double grave of individuals JS 20 and JS 21, Jebel Sahaba cemetery. Pencils indicate the position of associated lithic artefacts. Credit:…
Hall of the ancient Roman villa in Ephesus with its restored marble slabs, which have now been examined in more detail. Credit: © Sinan Ilhan…
Double-exposure photograph of Nikola Tesla in December 1899 sitting in his laboratory in Colorado Springs next to his magnifying transmitter high voltage generator while the…
A Van Leeuwenhoek microscope. Credit: Utrecht University/Rijksmuseum Boerhaave/TU Delft A microscope used by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to conduct pioneering research contains a surprisingly ordinary lens,…
Facial reconstruction of individual identified through DNA analysis as John Gregory, HMS Erebus. Credit: Diana Trepkov/ University of Waterloo With a living descendant’s DNA sample,…
Hazard & Caswell bottles from an apothecary in Newport, R.I., that contained a medicinal concoction marketed as a cure for digestive and other ailments. Credit:…
Dead sea scroll text analysis collage. Credit: Mladen Popović The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered some seventy years ago, are famous for containing the oldest manuscripts…
The remains of numerous individuals unearthed on the site of the former Hospital of St. John the Evangelist. Credit: Cambridge Archaeological Unit The first study…
This burial site in a badlands area of AlUla in north-west Saudi Arabia is currently rare for Neolithic-Chalcolithic Arabia in being built above-ground and meant…
Young Dakal clan landowner Desmond Lindsay visits this site on his country for the first time. Most sites are remote and often impossible to even…
A 9-11th century amphorae. Credit: University of York Researchers at the University of York have found chemical residues of grapes in medieval containers indicating a…
Computer-generated unfolding animation of sealed letter DB-1538. In our paper we describe how “virtual unfolding” was used to read the contents of sealed letterpackets from…
Letterpacket DB-1627 was virtually unfolded and read for the first time since it was written 300 years ago. The letter contains a message from Jacques…
A Roman church has since the sixth century AD held relics, believed to be the remains of two apostles. Now, they have undergone scientific analysis,…