Scientists have sequenced the oldest known DNA from ancient Egypt. It belonged to a potter who lived 4,500 years ago. This rare genetic snapshot offers new insights into the diverse ancestry of early ...

In keeping with protocols, it is appropriate to end this drama of trading places with another conceit. At the end of the eighteenth century ...

The watermelon has long inspired artists, such as Giuseppe Recco's Still Life With Fruit (1634-1695). The first color sketches of the red-fleshed, sweet watermelon in Europe can be found in a ...

Could a centuries-old map change everything we thought we knew about human history? This mysterious artifact has baffled ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the ...

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Canadian scientists found the oldest known rocks on Earth - dating back 4.16 billion years - shedding light on our planet’s ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool ...

In the Ségognole 3 cave near Paris, scientists have found what may be the oldest 3D map in the world. It contains drawings of ...