Tag: Ancient

The rare amulet-seal is at least 2,800 years old (First Temple period), according to a team of experts from the ...

ESA‘s Gaia space telescope has identified two surprising streams of stars that formed and fused together more than 12 billion ...

Identification of low-metallicity member stars in the LMC. Credit: Nature Astronomy (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02223-w The first generation of stars transformed ...

Whether standing stones, nondescript mounds, or lines in the earth, ancient civilizations have left signs of their existence that must ...

Dimetrodon, an early predatory synapsid from the early Permian (~298-272 Million years ago). (Display at the Royal Tyrell Museum, Canada). ...

A mosquito-borne parasite, Plasmodium malariae causes malaria — a disease responsible for at least 608,000 deaths and 249 million cases ...

An Egyptian mummy portrait of a young man, circa the third century A.D. (Image credit: Pictures from History/Universal Images Group ...

Rocks made of barium sulfate (known as barite rocks) from the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia. Credit: Gerhard HundertmarkTo learn ...

The history of water on Mars is a puzzle that is of interest to planetary scientists as well as the ...

A groundbreaking study analyzing ancient DNA has revealed instances of Down and Edwards syndrome in prehistoric human remains, dating back ...