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2,300-year-old shell mosaic discovered in luxurious home in Rome
Archaeologists think the house belonged to a senatorial family during the last years of Rome's Republic.
Are Neanderthals and Homo sapiens the same species?
Scientists have been vollying the question back and forth for more than a century.
Skull with 'execution-style wounds' suggests woman died due to enslavement or suspected sorcery in colonial Indonesia
The skull of a woman from colonial Indonesia bears sharp force trauma, possibly due to slavers or because she was seen as a sorcerer.
Ancient Scythians used human skin for leather, confirming Herodotus' grisly claim
The ancient Scythians, a nomadic people known for their gold and warrior ways, used human skin for leather, a new study finds.
What is frankincense?
Why is frankincense associated with Christmas and medical treatments?
Poisonous gas wave may have snuffed out half of all sea life in Earth's 1st mass extinction
About 510 million years ago, a deadly combination of low oxygen and surging hydrogen sulfide may have been what decimated 45% of all ocean life.
Discovery of 'calendar' rock carvings from Ancestral Pueblo in US Southwest surpasses 'wildest expectations'
Spiral petroglyphs carved into a canyon wall on the Colorado-Utah border may have been used as a calendar by the Ancestral Pueblo.
Iron oxide baked into Mesopotamian bricks confirms ancient magnetic field anomaly
About 3,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, brickmakers imprinted the names of their kings into clay bricks. Now, an analysis of the metal grains in those bricks has confirmed a mysterious anomaly in Earth's magnetic field.
