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06/05/2020 / By Michael Alexander

Elongated skulls unearthed in ancient Chinese tombs may indicate social status, researchers say… is there another explanation?

Human skeletons unearthed in northeast China represent some of the earliest evidence of intentional skull reshaping, says a recent study in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Between 2011 and 2015, the dig at the Houtaomuga site yielded 11 modified skulls and 14 skeletons with unmodified craniums. The former, in particular, had artificially elongated braincases and flattened bones […]

04/24/2020 / By Franz Walker

Ancient secrets to fantastic hair: Scientists uncovered 3000 year old hair wax from the hair of Ancient Egyptian noblewomen

The Ancient Egyptians may have discovered the secret to having long-lasting, perfectly styled hair. Russian scientists identified a special kind of hair wax used by the Ancient Egyptians to preserve the shiny curls of their noblewomen for over 3,000 years. In a recent study published in the Journal of Analytical Chemistry, a team from Moscow’s Kurchatov Institute described the contents […]

04/14/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

Ancient avian megafauna: Archeologists discover bones of new bird species THREE TIMES bigger than an ostrich in Crimean cave

A bird that weighed around 992 lbs (450 kg) – nearly as heavy as a polar bear – was discovered in a the Taurida Cave in Crimea, Ukraine. This is the first evidence scientists have found suggesting that early Europeans lived alongside one of the most enormous birds to have ever existed. Previous scientific knowledge […]

04/10/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

Ancient reptilian vegetarians: Scientists discover fossilized teeth of extinct crocs that dined on plants

Modern crocodiles are known as apex predators – and rightly so. While these fearsome reptiles don’t primarily hunt people, estimates indicate that crocodiles kill about 1,000 humans per year. They kill more people per year than other fearsome animals like sharks and hippopotamuses. However, recent research shows that the crocodile’s ancient relatives, which lived around […]

03/21/2020 / By Franz Walker

Scientists crack the code on the mystery of Stonehenge’s creation: They might have used lard

How ancient Britons built Stonehenge has remained a mystery for the longest time. A new analysis, however, claims to have found the mystery material that enabled these ancient people to build the stone monolith – lard. Archaeologists from Newcastle University propose that ancient builders used pig fat during the construction of Stonehenge. According to the archaeologists, […]

03/18/2020 / By Franz Walker

Recently discovered 2.5-billion-year-old fossils may contain cyanobacteria that transformed Earth’s atmosphere with oxygen

Most living creatures on Earth need oxygen to live – as such, the element is considered one of the building blocks of life. With this in mind, it might come as a surprise to find out that oxygen wasn’t present in the atmosphere of the early Earth. Now, a recent study has discovered how unusually large, […]

03/07/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

Prehistoric site described as “real-life Atlantis” – experts in a race against time to retrieve treasures before it disappears again

In the site known as Ala-Tei in the Tuva Republic, in Russia, scientists are racing against time to retrieve dozens of treasures from over 110 burial sites — all of which are thousands of years old. The Tuva Republic, one of the federal subjects of the Russian Federation, sits in the so-called Sayan Sea, an artificial reservoir created when the Sayano-Shushenskaya […]

02/23/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

10,000 year old “weapons factory” discovered by archeologists alongside remains of a wooly mammoth, whose tusks were used as raw materials

Paleontologists working on the island of Kotelny, a now-uninhabited Siberian island administered by Russia and located within the Arctic circle, have discovered a “weapons factory” where early humans took shards of mammoth tusks and sharpened them into knives and spears. Not only that, but this “weapons factory” was discovered right beside the remains of a felled […]

01/25/2020 / By Michael Alexander

Strange ring-shaped objects made from cereal and found in a Bronze Age dig site could have been used in ancient rituals, researchers find

While ancient agricultural practices are well-documented in the archaeological record, the same can’t be said for food preparation and production. This can be attributed to the relative rarity of extensive texts on the subject — best exemplified by the classical text “De re coquinaria” (On The Subject of Cooking), which has been attributed to the […]

12/22/2019 / By Grace Olson

Archaeologists unearth 2 trophy SKULLS in Belize jungles: Macabre artifacts will be used to study the collapse of the Maya civilization

The Maya civilization was one of the most powerful and scientifically advanced empires of the ancient world. However, by the end of the ninth century, the busy streets of its great stone cities were abandoned, signaling its collapse — an event that, since the 19th century, has intrigued and confused scholars. A recent discovery in […]

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