These ancient inhabitants of Mexico have carved strange giant heads, the meaning of which is only just beginning to be understood. Archaeologist Ann Cyphers is about to publish a sum on these people of which Mayas and Aztecs are the Read More …
The animal sheds light on the evolution of toothed cetaceans such as certain whales, belugas, or orcas. Ankylorhiza tieemani lived about 25 million years ago. It was known before only by a partial rostrum fossil: the paleontologists were therefore far Read More …
A large study has shown widely differentiated diets among the populations of farmers and ranchers in Western Europe 7,500 years ago. Meat in the south, milk in the north! It is the astonishing fracture line drawn by a five-year study Read More …
„We always thought that the ancestral dinosaur egg had a hard shell,“ said Mark Norell of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. But the research he has conducted, which is the subject of a publication in the Read More …
The assassination of Julius Caesar, in 44 BCE, triggered a power struggle of almost two decades marking the beginning of the transition between the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. According to historians, this period was marked by strange observations Read More …
Long before the Inca lived an enigmatic culture in the forests of Peru: the Chachapoya. Archaeologists know little about them so far. Now two German adventurers found a settlement of the indigenous people. On the day Tom Schinker and Martin Read More …
Who were our ancestors? Where do we come from? Most people can trace their family tree back for no more than three or four generations. Thanks to the genome analysis, however, it is possible to take a look into the Read More …
Even in ancient times, humanity was engaged in the task of penetrating the cause of the „creation“ of its species. Exactly this universal demand for origin, beginning in the Neanderthals and continuing to the Middle Ages, brought the European royal Read More …
End of the mystery! The results of the last radar tests carried out in the tomb of Tutankhamun, in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, belie any possibility of hidden cavities. No unknown or hidden parts were found near Read More …
The remains of 140 children sacrificed in the fifteenth century during a mass ritual were exhumed in America, in a region where pre-Columbian Chimu civilization was present. Some bodies were outcropping, others had their skulls stained with cinnabar giving them Read More …
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