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Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...
An ancient climate tipping point is revealed in new fossils dating back to Earth’s most severe extinction event, called the ...
Most everyone has heard the phrase “Dog Days of Summer.” We use it to describe the hottest part of summer. But do you really ...
On the shores of an ancient lake in what is now central Germany, a group of Neanderthals transformed a lakeside landscape ...
A man who lived nearly 4,800 years ago has been brought alive after his DNA was sequenced for the first time. The ...
This is the fourth installment of Edmonds resident Nathaniel Brown’s recent travels to Greece. You can read part 1 here, part ...
For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...
The discovery of a Hellenistic period mansion remains in North Macedonia indicates ties with the Ancient Greek world.
More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...
WASHINGTON – Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to ...
Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes ...
For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...