Tag: Ancient
How AI Is Accelerating The Fight Against An Ancient Killer
The battle against tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a significant global health challenge, claiming millions of lives each…
Archaeologists Reconstruct Ancient Roman “Jigsaw Puzzle”
The Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) has embarked on an ambitious project to reconstruct a massive installation of…
Peculiar plant could help us reconstruct ancient Earth’s climate
Smooth horsetail plants: Nature's Water Distillers Smooth horsetail plants have segmented stemspiemags/nature/Alamy A fascinating plant species, known as…
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…