Ancient human figurines have been found. Some of the oldest known paintings in the world are in the Cave of the Castle, in Cantabria in the north of Spain. Thought to be more than 40,000 years old ...

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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 ...

The ancient city of Ephesus, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, welcomes visitors after sunset as part of a new "night museum" initiative. The historic site, now illuminated with special lighting, offers a ...

Women living around the 7th-century Muaro Jambi temple complex in Sumatra, Indonesia, have revived ancient ingredients and cooking techniques to serve one-of-a-kind meals to visitors. Their dishes ...

In a new study, researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have recovered the first ancient genomes (aDNA) from Papua New Guinea and the Bismarck ...

While Van Katwijk says we can postpone the inevitable, looking to the ancient ways of a group of Mexican indigenous people is worth considering. Van Katwijk noted the Seri have used the seeds for ...

Credit: Shutterstock These findings offer valuable insights into human history, population dynamics, and the eventual collapse of the Classic Maya civilization through the study of ancient DNA. A new ...

Ancient medical systems such as ayurveda, yoga, acupuncture and tai chi have great potential for the human body, brain and mind, as many research papers have revealed. It has been pointed out too ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America about 6,000 years ago.Researchers are still charting how ...

His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey. Several colossal heads that once stood in the mausoleum of Antiochus I of Commagene now lie in front ...