Chromium steel was first made in ancient Persia Chromium steel—similar to what we know today as tool steel—was first made in Persia, nearly a millennium earlier than experts previously thought, according to a new study […]
Wild birds as offerings to the Egyptian gods Millions of ibis and birds of prey mummies, sacrificed to the Egyptian gods Horus, Ra or Thoth, have been discovered in the necropolises of the Nile Valley. […]
Archaeologists unearth 27 coffins at Egypt’s Saqqara pyramid Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed more than two dozen ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of Cairo, an official said Monday. The sarcophagi have remained unopened since […]
Ancient footprints in Saudi Arabia show how humans left Africa Around 120,000 years ago in what is now northern Saudi Arabia, a small band of homo sapiens stopped to drink and forage at a shallow […]
Math Shows How Famed Indus Valley Civilization May Have Been Toppled by Climate Change There are competing hypotheses around the decline of the Indus Valley Civilization in South Asia some 3,000 years ago, but a new mathematical […]
When did we become fully human? What fossils and DNA tell us about the evolution of modern intelligence When did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there’s remarkably little agreement […]