Shock Revelation of How Recently Mammoths Roamed Vancouver Island
Mammoths, the massive pre-historic ice age cousins of the modern-day elephant, have always been understood to have inhabited parts of…
47,000 years of Aboriginal Heritage Was Destroyed in Mining Blast
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains an image of deceased people, which is used with…
Secrets of the European Genome Revealed At 4,500-year-old Burial
High-resolution analysis of the genomes of individuals buried in a 4,500-year-old collective tomb at Bréviandes-les-Pointes, near the French town of…
6 Surprising Facts About Life for Egyptian Slaves
The prominence of slavery in ancient Egypt is well-documented, but many aspects of enslaved people's lives remain less known. Here…
Denisovan Finds Reveal They Survived on Tibetan Plateau for 160,000 Years
Bone remains found in a Tibetan cave 3,280 m above sea level indicate that Denisovans, an ancient group of extinct humans survived here for many millennia, according to a new…
An Earthquake Changed the Course of the River Ganges
A major earthquake 2,500 years ago caused one of the largest rivers on Earth to abruptly change course, according to…
Sacred Aboriginal Women’s Site Contained 7,000 Years of Tool Making
Investigation of a sacred area at Avon Downs in Jangga Country, Central Queensland, has uncovered evidence of stone tool production in…
Earliest Manuscript of Gospel about Jesus’s Childhood Discovered
For decades, a papyrus fragment with the inventory number P.Hamb.Graec. 1011 lay unnoticed in the archives of the Hamburg Carl…
