9,000-Year-Old Skeletons Painted in Different Colours Found Buried Them in Their Homes The inhabitants of the “world’s oldest city” — now a UNESCO World Heritage Site — painted the skeletal remains of their dead and buried them within the structures of their homes, painting the walls as part of the burial ritual, according to researchers. Skeleton of a male individual […]
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A Horse Skeleton Reveals the Hidden Death of 54 Ancient Soldier Corpses Scientific analyses of mass graves believed to be associated with battles fought at Himera, Sicily, between the Greeks and Carthaginians in the 5th century BC have provided new insights into the genetic ancestry of the island’s inhabitants, and also the role of warfare in triggering contact between distant […]
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Astronomers find the world’s biggest natural diamond, which weighs 10 billion trillion trillion carats. The universe’s biggest diamond is not found on Earth. In reality, it is a star called BPM 37093 or V886 Centauri, which is a white dwarf. A white dwarf star is a “dead” or “lost” star. V886 Centauri is shaped like a diamond and floats in […]
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Between 23 and 34 million years old, the well-preserved praying mantis was found in amber In a remarkable natural process, insects and even mammals can be preserved in time for all eternity by becoming encased in tree sap that eventually turns into amber. In the hit movie Jurassic Park, a scientific character was able to draw dinosaur blood from mosquitoes […]
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Ancient Skeletons from Croatia Discovered with Alien-Like Heads Three ancient corpses have been discovered by archaeologists in Croatia, and two of them have pointed purposely disfigured heads. Each of the skulls had been combined into a distinct form, maybe to indicate which ethnic group each one belonged to. The practice of artificial cranial deformation has been carried out all throughout […]
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In a Californian gold mine, 40 million-year-old tools were found At Table Mountain and other locations in the gold mining region around the middle of the nineteenth century, miners discovered hundreds of stone artifacts and human bones buried deep inside their tunnels. Experts claim that these bones and artifacts were found embedded in layers from the Eocene epoch (38-55 million […]
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16,000-yr-old Ice Age Horse Found During Utah Family’s Backyard Renovation You never know what you might turn up when you dig in your backyard, aside from bits of glass, rusty nails, and tulip bulbs. One couple in Utah undertaking a renovation project discovered what they thought was the skeleton of a cow. But it turned out to be a 16,000-year-old […]
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‘Folded’ iron sword found in a Roman soldier’s grave was part of a pagan ritual Archaeologists in Greece have discovered a 1,600-year-old iron sword that was folded in a ritual “killing” before being interred in the grave of a soldier who served in the Roman imperial army. The discovery of the folded sword was “astonishing,” because the soldier was buried […]
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Cache in Chinese Mountain Reveals 20,000 Prehistoric Fossils A giant cache of nearly 20,000 fossil reptiles, shellfish and a host of other prehistoric creatures unearthed from a mountain in China is now revealing how life recovered after the most devastating mass extinction on Earth. This research could help point out which species might be more or less susceptible to extinction […]
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Archaeologists in Israel Unearth 3,800-Year-Old Skeleton of Baby Buried in a Jar Researchers are unsure of the unusual funerary practice’s purpose, but one theory posits that the vessel serves as a symbolic womb. Archaeologists excavating a site in Jaffa, Israel, recently made a macabre discovery: a 3,800-year-old jar containing the skeleton of a baby. As Ariel David reports for Haaretz, […]
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