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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 […]

05/25/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

Study: Plate tectonics that shifted continents across Earth started at least 2.5 billion years ago

Plate tectonics is the widely accepted theory that the outer shell of the Earth is divided into several pieces, known as plates. These plates slowly glide across the Earth’s mantle, the rocky inner layer above the planet’s core. This movement causes both earthquakes and the movement of continents across the surface of the Earth. Scientists have […]

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, […]

03/07/2020 / 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 […]

01/04/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

Manuscripts by astronomer Kepler show that he ‘may have practiced alchemy’

Researchers studying Johannes Kepler’s manuscripts believe they found evidence that suggests that the famous German astronomer may have been a practitioner of alchemy, the protoscientific tradition famous for its obsession with turning “base metals” like lead into “noble metals” like gold and silver. Kepler lived in the late 16th to the early 17th centuries, and is known as an astronomer, astrologer and […]

12/28/2019 / By Michael Alexander

“Thai”-rannosaurus rex? Fossils unearthed in Thailand reveal link to fearsome therapod

Two distant relatives of the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex have been identified in Thailand, according to a new report. In an article published in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, paleontologists Adun Samathi and Martin Sander of the University of Bonn in Germany identified previously unrecognized fossils as those of megaraptors – cousins to the famed Jurassic Park predator. “We were […]

12/26/2019 / By Michael Alexander

A jaw-dropping find: High schooler from Iowa discovers a prehistoric mastodon jaw bone

Imagine stumbling upon a fossil from the Pleistocene era during a trek at a farm. That’s exactly what happened to a teenager who, while hunting for arrowheads, discovered a 30-inch-long fossilized mastodon jaw complete with teeth, on a farm in southern Iowa. According to paleontologists from the University of Iowa who analyzed the fossil, 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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