Ancient DNA Reveals Ice Age Humans Disproportionately Targeted Female Woolly Mammoths
Ancient DNA recovered from more than 500 woolly mammoths has revealed an unexpected pattern in the relationship between Ice Age people and one of the…
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Why Were Four Girls Buried Beneath a Medieval Norwegian Church Wearing Red Mittens?
Two children and two teenage girls were laid together in a shallow grave beneath the floor of Uvdal Stave Church in Norway. Their faces, hands…
2,800-Year-Old Face-Down Burial With Turtle-Shaped Vessel Found in El Salvador
Archaeologists excavating beneath a residential area in El Salvador have uncovered a pre-Hispanic burial that may date to around 850 B.C. The grave was discovered…
4,000-Year-Old UAE Tomb Remained in Use for More Than 1,000 Years
A Bronze Age tomb discovered in the United Arab Emirates served as a communal burial place for more than a millennium, with successive generations returning…
Ancient DNA Reveals Malaria in Medici Brothers, Weakening 400-Year-Old Poisoning Theory
Ancient DNA recovered from the remains of two Medici brothers has provided the strongest genetic evidence yet that both men were infected with malaria when…
Medieval Graves in Malazgirt May Hold Clues to the Aftermath of the 1071 Seljuk-Byzantine Battle
The 1071 Battle of Malazgirt was fought between the Seljuk army of Sultan Alp Arslan and the Byzantine forces of Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes for…
Ancient Human DNA Found on Cave Walls for the First Time
A cave wall is not usually treated like a genetic archive. In Spain and Portugal, however, researchers have recovered ancient human DNA from the surface…
Child Graves Near Lake Baikal Reveal Plague’s Deadly Reach 5,500 Years Ago
A prehistoric Lake Baikal plague outbreak is no longer just a theory drawn from scattered graves. Ancient DNA from children buried near the Angara River…
Iron Age Burial in Scotland Reveals Possible Brain Removal and Human Bone Tools
An Iron Age burial in northern Scotland has revealed one of the most unusual examples of postmortem body treatment yet identified in prehistoric Britain. A…