Tag: Ancient

By LAURAN NEERGAARD Updated : , ,   WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA helps explain why northern Europeans have a higher ...

ST. LOUIS — Beneath the modern-day streets of Italy, hidden under a parking lot, lies a discovery that challenges our ...

A note discovered in a 15th-century Hebrew prayer book by Paolo Galli reveals a previously unknown earthquake in Italy’s Marche ...

It’s important to figure out how Earth’s magnetic field behaved in the past, especially during archaeological times. This helps us ...

Roughly 4,000 years ago, where the Romanian Plains border the Carpathian Mountains, mourners tucked a 30-something man into a tomb. ...

Recent research has uncovered a link between Neanderthal genetics and the tendency for some modern humans to be early risers. ...

Science news this week includes a 72 million-year-old mosasaur unearthed in Japan and a startling theory about atom-size black holes. ...

Using tools from geology and genetics, researchers are uncovering evidence of a shift in how the first living things ate, ...

R-process nucleosynthesis. Credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The first stars of the universe were monstrous beasts. Comprised only of hydrogen ...

Archaeologists have discovered a set of ancient Native American artworks carved into rock at a site on the border between ...