Rivers began pumping weathered material into the sea about a billion years after Earth formed, suggesting continents may have gotten an early start.
Ancient lead pollution in the Aegean Sea may have started 5,200 years ago — 1,200 years earlier than previously thought.
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Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...
Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece ...
The enigmatic Indus Valley civilization left behind a script that today's historians haven't yet deciphered. While amateur theories abound, scholars are increasingly relying on computer science to cra ...
A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...
The ancient universities of India were intellectual powerhouses that attracted scholars from distant lands interested in studying mathematics and astronomy as well as philosophy and medicine.
The purpose of these so-called 'sun stones', and the reasons for throwing them into ditches en masse, have been something of a mystery – but ancient ice excavated from Greenland may have the answer.
"This is a major archaeological discovery, because it is extremely rare to be able to study in its entirety an ancient monetary deposit in its archaeological context," the statement said.
Although there is evidence of ancient looting on burial grounds from that time period, Fu’s tomb remains intact, according to the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The group shared Fu’s ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Honorable Andrew Young speaks a Homily next to the flag-draped casket of former President Jimmy Carter ...
A new study has revolutionized the understanding of ancient medicine by combining modern science with hands-on historical reenactments. Supported by a European Research Council (ERC) grant ...
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