Scientists Hope to Solve the Mystery of 163 Child Mummies Discovered in Italy The 200-year-old secrets of the child mummies of the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo in northern Sicily are to be revealed by a British-led team of scientists using X-ray technology.…
DNA has proven that Turkey was the country of origin for the earliest farmers in Europe It was an innovation that changed the course of human history forever, leading to the rise of the first civilizations and transforming the way…
Bones of Handless Man Found Near Mysterious Medieval Dolphin Burial The body of a man without hands thought to have been buried hundreds of years ago has been found by archaeologists on a rocky islet off the coast of Guernsey,…
Carbon dating indicates that India’s oldest known burial site is 4,000 years old One day in 2005, Shriram Sharma, a farmer from Sanauli village Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat district, was carrying about his day, and ploughing his field. Little did he know that…
Mass Grave Of The Viking Army Contained Slaughtered Children To Help Dead Reach Afterlife, Experts Believe A mass grave of Viking warriors found in Derbyshire was accompanied by slaughtered children in a burial ritual enacted to help the dead reach…
518 Million-Year-Old-Rocks Suggest Animal And Human Life May Have First Emerged In China A new study based on an analysis of 518 million-year-old rocks that contain the oldest collection of fossils that researchers have on record. The researchers believe that…
Massive 20,000-year-old armadillo shells of the size of a CAR found in Argentina An extraordinary discovery has been made by a farmer in Argentina who was fortunate enough to stumble across the fossil remains of four enormous Glyptodon fossils in…
A shocking world first has seen the discovery of a pregnant ancient Egyptian mummy A team of Polish scientists say they have discovered the only known example of an embalmed pregnant Egyptian mummy. The discovery was made by researchers at…
A 1.8-million-year-old skull provides insight into our evolutionary history. The discovery of a 1.8-million-year-old skull of a human ancestor buried under a medieval Georgian village provides a vivid picture of early evolution and indicates our family tree may have fewer…
195,000 Years Oldest Fossils Found Outside of Africa New fossil finds over the past few years have been forcing anthropologists to reexamine our evolutionary path to becoming human. Now the earliest modern human fossil ever found outside the continent of Africa is…
