Tag: Ancient
An ancient Earth impact could help in the search for Martian life
The discovery of one of Earth's oldest asteroid impacts in a remote desert in northwest Australia has shed…
A drowned landscape held clues to the lives of ancient human relatives
Berghuis and his colleagues collected sediment cores from the dredged material and found something unexpected: thousands of fossils,…
‘Classic’ Hymn Deciphered From Ancient Babylonian Library : ScienceAlert
Rediscovering the Ancient Hymn to Babylon Some 3,000 years ago, the city of Babylon stood as a grand…
An ancient Egyptian’s complete genome has been read for the first time
A fresco from the Theban necropolis depicting potters in ancient EgyptDeAgostini/Getty Images The Complete Genome of an Ancient…
Ancient Neanderthal ‘Fat Factory’ Reveals How Advanced They Really Were : ScienceAlert
The Neanderthal "Fat Factory": A Fascinating Discovery The Neanderthals, our closest extinct relatives, continue to captivate us as…
Ancient Roman Bigfoot? ‘Unusually Large’ Shoes Puzzle Archaeologists : ScienceAlert
Uncovering a Mystery: Large 2,000-Year-Old Shoes Found at Roman Site in England Archaeologists at the Vindolanda Charity Trust…
Ancient mass extinction shows how Earth turned into a super-greenhouse
Global warming is causing forest die-offs today, just as it did during the Permian-Triassic extinction event After a…
First Human Genome from Ancient Egypt Sequenced from 4,800-Year-Old Teeth
4,800-Year-Old Teeth Yield First Human Genome from Ancient Egypt Forty years after the first attempt to extract mummy…
Ancient DNA reveals make-up of Roman Empire’s favourite sauce
Ancient DNA Reveals Secrets of Roman Fish Sauce A modern recreation of garum, a fermented fish sauce dating…
Ruins of Ancient Temple Belonged to Mysterious Pre-Inca Civilization : ScienceAlert
Uncovering the Enigmatic Tiwakanu Civilization: The Discovery of Palaspata Temple Exploring the rich history of the Andes reveals…
Ancient Blueprint For Human Bodies Discovered in Sea Anemones : ScienceAlert
Sea Anemones Revealed to Hold Ancient 'Blueprint' for Animal Bodies Sea anemones may appear otherworldly, but recent scientific…
Ancient mammoth-tusk boomerang is twice as old as we thought
An artefact made from a mammoth tusk is the oldest known boomerangTalamo et al., 2025, PLOS One, CC-BY…