In that glacial sample from the Himalayas, scientists have now identified more than 1,700 ancient viruses, though they note that these species do not infect humans. Their findings, tracing how the ...

The study of celestial objects ran throughout ancient Egyptian culture. Religious events were fixed by the movements of the sun and moon, star charts were carved into the lids of tombs ...

By Franz Lidz It was good to be the king in ancient Babylonia, unless, of course, an eclipse occurred during his reign. Such an event foretold revolt, rebellion, defeat in war, loss of territory ...

When the Moon fully slips into Earth's shadow, a king shall die. So warns an ominous prediction from Old Babylonia, inscribed across several ancient clay tablets. For over a century now, these ...

Although the paint, exposed over centuries to wind and rain, has long since faded away. Founded over 2,000 years ago along the ancient Arabian trade routes, Petra was at one time home to a community ...

The impacts that created the nearby craters Manzinus and Boguslawsky further churned the ejecta blanket, and the Vikram landing site also lies on an ancient ray of debris splashed from Schomberger ...

A tiny chunk of plant resin shows humans were living on an island in eastern Indonesia at least 55,000 years ago – revealing the likely route that modern humans took when migrating to Australia.

July 10, 2024 — Ancient DNA from bones and teeth hints at a role of the plague in Stone Age population collapse. Contrary to previous beliefs, the plague may have diminished Europe's populations ...

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Another story goes back even further to a time when the Batavians and the Frisians would eat food made of a kind of fatty dough around the turn of the year in order to escape a Germanic goddess known ...

van Dijk, Evelien Mørkestøl Gundersen, Ingar de Bode, Anna Høeg, Helge Loftsgarden, Kjetil Iversen, Frode Timmreck, Claudia Jungclaus, Johann and Krüger, Kirstin 2023. Climatic and societal impacts in ...

Archaeologists located a number of buildings including this one with stone steps Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered the remains of an ancient Maya city deep in the jungle of the Yucatán ...