Did humans mate with Neanderthals? Could a Neanderthal and a human have a baby? What are facts about the sex lives of Neanderthals? Did you know that Neanderthals suffered from inbreeding?
Fewer than a dozen Denisovan fossils have been found worldwide. But a new study is revealing how these enigmatic ancient humans survived in one of Earth’s most extreme environments — perhaps more recently than scientists thought.
Have you ever wondered why there are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour? People often take this for granted because it has been this way for thousands of years. If you can believe it…
There are countless, extremely ancient underground tunnels and chambers that stretch across the European Continent. These massive, 12-000-year-old underground
Pseudoscience and genuine archaeological mysteries surround humanity's oldest known temple. But was it the world's first astronomical observatory?
Prehistoric cave paintings in Europe depict star constellations, according to a recent study, and were used to track significant astronomical events.
One of the most tempting mistakes in studying history is to judge the past by modern standards. Nowhere is this more easily seen than in the contributions of ancient science. When we laugh at geocentric cosmology or the theory of four elements, we fail to realize that while the theories were certainly wrong, they still advanced scientific knowledge. This list explores 10 such contributions.
According to the conventional view of history, humans have only walked the Earth in our present form for some 200,000 years. Advanced civilizations appeared several thousand years ago, but much of the mechanical ingenuity we know in modern times began to develop only around the Industrial Revolution
Like a great 12-handed clock, the earth slowly moves west-wood through the constellations. That slow movement is called the precession of the equinoxes. Throughout human history, people have measured and watched this clock.
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The megalithic site of Gunung Padang is nestled among volcanoes, banana palms and tea plantations, at 2,903 ft (885 metres) above sea level some 75 miles (120km) south of Jakarta, Java.
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The probable cause is also one of the primary ingredients in the world's favourite psychedelic.
Few underground cities in the world are sculpted entirely out of rock salt. That’s the magic of Poland’s fantastic Wieliczka Salt Mine, near the city of
Ancient tracks found in New Mexico are believed to be between 21,000 and 23,000 years old, study says
Uncharted regions of the Amazon River basin may have once been home to many people, new research reveals.
Data on descendants of the Chumash spur new ideas about the first settlers of the Americas.
More than a dozen tunnels have been found beneath Cornwall’s countryside, dating back some 2,400 years. But why do they exist?
A preponderance of archeological evidence unearthed in the early years America was being built has shown that many ancient races and civilizations had colonized and explored both North & South America
What anatomically distinguishes Neanderthals from modern humans? Turns out a great place to start is with teeth. This article by expert in Maltese prehistory, Anton Mifsud, integrates twenty-first century scientific methodology, namely Biological Anthropology’s ‘Geometric Morphometrics’, into the existing traditional historiography on ancient Malta, by means of teeth. Mifsud explores the evidence pertaining to […]
Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann created LSD in 1936 – but it wasn't until 1943 that he first dosed himself and went on a magical bicycle ride.
The "boy and his dog" tale is a piece of prehistoric fiction, but scientists are uncovering the true origins of our incredible relationship with dogs
Ancient skeletons reveal arrival of eastern Mediterranean population replaced hunter-gatherer population of British Isles
Professor of Geology at the University of South Florida, Dr. Marc J. Defant, provides an analysis of the claims made by Graham Hancock in his book Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization.
The Wonderwerk Cave site in South Africa is one of very few places on Earth where human activity can be traced back continuously across millennia, and scientists just established the oldest evidence of archaic human habitation in the cave: some 1.8...
A British man hopes to sail a replica Phoenician boat to America – showing it could have been reached a thousand years before Columbus.
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Few of the modern visitors to Teotihuacan are aware of the vast and mysterious underworld of caves and man-made tunnels that extends under much of the ancient site and for miles around. The existence of these tunnels has been known for centuries, but not even the most recent research has been able to solve the mystery of their origin and purpose. Very much like at Giza, in Egypt, these tunnels are rumored to connect all the main pyramids by means of underground passageways, and perhaps even lead to the records of a lost civilization.
