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Neanderthals Performed Dental Caries Interventions 59,000 Years Ago

Prehistoric dentistry is far older than 14,000 years as indicated by Villabruna specimen from Late Upper Palaeolithic era. A recent study on 59,000-year-old Neanderthal...

Discovery of tomb of King Thutmose II 

Tomb of king Thutmose II, the last missing tomb of the 18th dynasty kings has been discovered. This is the first royal tomb discovery...

When did Alphabetic Writing Start?  

One of key milestones in the story of human civilisation is development of a system of writing based on symbols representing sounds of a...

Ancient DNA rebuts traditional interpretation of Pompeii   

Genetic study based on ancient DNA extracted from the skeletal remains embedded in the Pompeii plaster casts of the victims of volcanic eruption of...

The upper part of the statue of Ramesses II uncovered 

A team of researchers led by Basem Gehad of Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt and Yvona Trnka-Amrhein of University of Colorado has uncovered...

Treasure of Villena: Two artefacts made of Extra-terrestrial Meteoritic Iron

A new study indicates that the two iron artefacts (a hollow hemisphere and a bracelet) in the Treasure of Villena were made using extra-terrestrial...

Homo sapiens spread into cold steppes in northern Europe 45,000 years ago 

Homo sapiens or the modern human evolved around 200,000 years ago in East Africa near modern-day Ethiopia. They lived in Africa for a long...

aDNA research unravels “family and kinship” systems of prehistoric communities

Information about “family and kinship” systems (which is routinely studied by social anthropology and ethnography) of prehistoric societies is unavailable due to obvious reasons. Tools...

Archaeologists find 3000 years old bronze sword 

During excavations in the Donau-Ries in Bavaria in Germany, archaeologists have discovered a well-preserved sword that is over 3000 years old. The weapon is...

How Lipid Analyses Unravel Ancient Food Habits and Culinary Practices

Chromatography and compound specific isotope analysis of lipid remains in ancient pottery tell a lot about ancient food habits and culinary practices. In the...

Chinchorro Culture: Mankind’s Oldest Artificial Mummification

The oldest evidence of artificial mummification in the world comes from pre-historic Chinchorro culture of South America (in present Northern Chile) which is older than Egyptian by about two...

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