Across continents and cultures, one of the most striking features of ancient rock art is how often it places the natural ...
A study of ancient human DNA from a wetland region in Belgium, western Germany, and the Netherlands yielded surprising information about early British history. Hunter-gatherer genes were prevalent in ...
Human bodies carefully preserved by smoking up to 14,000 years ago have been found at archaeological sites in South-East Asia, making them the oldest known mummies in the world. A similar practice ...
Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years, including variants linked to celiac disease and multiple sclerosis The ...
Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...
Excerpted from Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations by Sam Kean. Copyright ...