Mars is truly a fascinating planet. Not only because it was once a place that resembled Earth, with massive oceans, river systems, and lakes, but because life as we know it may have developed there at one point. Whether this was the case remains to be seen, and various scientific …

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA—According to a Live Science report, 31,000-year-old remains recovered from a limestone cave in a remote region of the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo bear evidence of surgical limb amputation. When the bones were unearthed by Tim Maloney of Griffith University, India Ella Dilkes-Hall of the University …

ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA—According to a First Coast News report, St. Augustine city archaeologist Andrea White and her colleagues have found pottery and postholes from Palica, a Native American village, under a nineteenth-century house in St. Augustine’s Lincolnville neighborhood. The house was constructed a couple of feet above the ground, which …

Per leggere questo articolo occorrono 4 minuti Durante il Mesolitico anche i neonati avevano diritto a una sepoltura, nonostante la breve vita. Nel 2017 un team di archeologi ha scoperto i resti di un essere umano di poco più di due mesi, morto all’incirca 10.000 anni fa, deposto in una …

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OXFORD, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Oxford, some 350 monumental structures known as “kites” have been spotted in northern Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq with satellite imagery. Michael Fradley of Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) and his colleagues used open-source satellite …

Since Mars lacks glacial valleys, scientists believed that ancient ice masses on the Red Planet must have remained frozen to the ground, remaining motionless throughout the planet’s history. A variety of valleys and fjords have been carved into the surface of the Earth by the weight and grinding movement of …

Wallpaper isn’t as popular as it once was, and perhaps the reason for its fall from fashion was its ability to kill! Read more Section:  News Weird Facts Read Later  Source: Ancient Origins

BRISTOL, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Bristol, Simon Hammann, Luce Cramp, and their colleagues analyzed residues collected from pots recovered from crannog sites in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. The study suggests that early Neolithic cooks used cereals, dairy products, and meat as ingredients as early as 4000 …