Archaeology

“Extraordinary” 4,000-Year-Old Egyptian Skull Reveals Surgical Attempts at Cancer Care

Health
Sarah Carter

Skull and mandible 236, dating from between 2687 and 2345 BCE, belonged to a male individual aged 30 to 35. Credit: Tondini, ...

Cosmic Ray Sheds New Light on 7,000-Year-Old Ancient Greek Settlement

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

Researchers at the University of Bern have successfully dated a prehistoric farming settlement in northern Greece to between 5328 and 5140 BC, ...

One-million-year-old ‘Dragon man’ skull found in China may belong to ‘long lost ancestral species’, say researchers

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

A ONE-million-year-old skull found in China might belong to a species of ancient human known as the “Dragon Man”. In 1989 and 1990, a ...

Secret of Great Pyramid construction revealed by dried-up river

World
Emily Foster

“[This] strongly implies that this river branch was contemporaneously functioning during the Old Kingdom, at the time of pyramid construction,” the team ...

Lost Atlantis-like ‘Sahul’ continent that let ancient humans ‘cross from Asia to Australia’ revealed in stunning map

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

NEW archaeological records provide evidence of a lost Atlantis-like landscape that early humans traveled on more than 70,000 years ago. However, researchers ...

Ancient 30-foot ‘great white relative’ remains found with 22-inch teeth and may be biggest turtle-gobbling shark ever

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

SCIENTISTS have unearthed the first-ever well-preserved fossils of an ancient shark relative which now prove it’s a prehistoric predator unlike any other. ...

Dentist Makes an Unsettling Discovery in the Floor of His Parents’ Newly Renovated Home

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

Something about one of the floor tiles in his parents’ newly renovated European home seemed extremely strange. That’s because the man who ...

Colossal prehistoric sea beast longer than two buses identified after Brit girl, 11, finds fossils on Somerset beach

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

FOSSILS found by an 11-year-old girl on a UK beach belonged to one of the largest marine reptiles ever, experts believe. Ruby ...

“Extraordinary” Schöningen Spears Unveil Early Human Ingenuity

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

Spears from Schöningen in the exhibition at the Forschungsmuseum Schöningen. Credit: Volker Minkus/MINKUSIMAGES, NLD In 1994, archaeological digs at the Schöningen open-cast ...

Mystery grave of five giant triceratops ‘buried in same spot’ found as scientists reveal tragic way they died

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

SCIENTISTS investigating a Triceratops grave have made a tragic discovery. You may recognize the spikey creatures from the Jurrasic Park movies. A ...