Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...

Dec. 5, 2024 — Researchers have tested ancient DNA from corn found at archaeological sites in Arkansas, shedding new light on the dispersal of one of the world's ... We Might Feel Love in Our ...

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Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a complex task due to the lack of accurate historical records and the different periods of ancient ...

An inscribed piece of pottery found in an ancient Jewish stronghold in the Jordan Valley has finally been deciphered. The 2,000-year-old shard was first discovered by archaeologists in the 1980s but ...

In the quiet cliffs of Stevns, Denmark, a 79-year-old amateur fossil hunter split open a piece of chalk last November and ...

Researchers have discovered two sets of ancient wave ripples on Mars ... to a shallow lake less than about 2 meters deep. The period of the ripples' formation, around 3.7 billion years ago ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...

remnants of ancient viral DNA, are reactivated during the first hours and days following fertilization. This dynamic period of early development sees embryonic cells displaying remarkable ...

Ancient ice core extracted from Antarctica's Little Dome C site 1.2-million-year-old air bubbles may reveal past climate shifts Ice core study could explain climate's impact on human evolution ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought ancient languages to life by demonstrating how they sounded ... This marked the beginning of the Greek classical period, which revolutionized written ...