An ancient, distant human cousin from southern ... which are around the same size as the smaller male tooth, came from females. “Paleoanthropologists have long known that our use of tooth ...

Analyses showed that the bread was made with coarsely ground emmer flour, an ancient variety of wheat, and lentil seeds, with the leaf of an as yet undetermined plant used as yeast. Ancient emmer ...

The authors compared the amount of radiocarbon in each sample with the amount present in a standard reference that is used to represent modern atmospheric CO 2 — carbon derived from ancient ...

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Researchers have recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago. A team of Washington State University-led researchers ...

The newly sequenced genomes were then compared with ancient and modern American genomes, revealing a strong genetic continuity in the Maya region from the late archaic period to the present day.

Egypt has announced the “significant” discovery of three ancient tombs dating to the New Kingdom period (1550–1070 B.C.), found on the West Bank of Luxor in the Draa Abul Naga area.

Skeletons unearthed from the ruins of the ancient city of Copán in Honduras have yielded clues to the collapse of the Mayan civilisation. Copán, now a Unesco World Heritage site, thrived during ...

The types of pollen and the quantities of pollen grains found at a site help researchers reconstruct ancient forests, track sea-level changes and identify the fingerprints of significant events ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and monuments that point to its significance as an important ceremonial site ...

Most actinide-rich stars are metal-poor and ancient. This one? It’s old, but chemically rich, suggesting it may have originated in a now-merged dwarf galaxy outside the Milky Way. The leading ...