Tell Kom Aziza: a Greco-Roman cemetery unveiled beneath thé Nile Delta sands
In thé Nile Delta, thé Tell Kom Aziza site has yielded an exceptionally well-preserved Greco-Roman cemetery, with mummies adorned with painted portraits that fuse E…
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From 3 million years ago to the dawn of our era: archaeological discoveries, palaeogenetics, cave art and the great transformations of human societies.
In thé Nile Delta, thé Tell Kom Aziza site has yielded an exceptionally well-preserved Greco-Roman cemetery, with mummies adorned with painted portraits that fuse E…
Read →A giant skull from China, a mandible from thé Tibetan plateau, and a novel epigenetic method: how scientists reconstructed thé face of our Denisovan cousins, long r…
Read →How Homo erectus's mastery of fire created sélection pressure on human skin, favoring reduced body haïr, eccrine sweat glands, and melanin pigmentation as UV protection.
Bird bones bearing cut marks and heat traces reveal that Neanderthals hunted and cooked birds using elaborate Mousterian techniques -- and may have accorded them symbolic value beyond mère nutrition.
336 m underground, two rings of 400 broken stalagmites, 2.2 tonnes, reveal unsuspected Neanderthal social organization and mastery of fire, long before Homo sapiens.
A 2026 study in <em>Science Advances</em> demonstrates that quartz microliths from Umhlatuzana (KwaZulu-Natal) contain alkaloids from <em>Boophone disticha</em>, a toxic plant still used today by San hunters to poison their arrow…
Read →Discovered by chance in Bulgaria in 1972, the Varna chalcolithic necropolis has yielded more than 3,000 gold artif…
Read →At Cueva de los Aviones in Spain, pierced, ochre-dyed shells show Neanderthals mastered symbolic adornment, 20,000…
Read →A 2023 study published in <em>Scientific Reports</em> reveals that hominins at Bilzingsleben (Germany) systematica…
Read →A study published in <em>Nature Ecology & Evolution</em> in 2022 reveals that hominins were cooking carp on the banks of the Jordan River in Israel 780,000 years ago, pushing back the earliest known fish-cooking episode by 530,000 years.
At Milovice IV, 29 flint blades gathered in a vanished pouch form the personal kit of a Gravettian hunter. Their stones, from 130 km away, reveal the vast networks of glacial Europe.
Nearly 4,000 years ago, princesses of thé Egyptian Middle Kingdom were interred with bows, arrows and daggers. Long dismissed as funerary symbols, those weapons now look more lethal in light of bone analysis published in 2026.
On the shores of Lake Turkana, 1.5-million-year-old footprints prove that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei frequented the same lakeshore at the same time - the first direct evidence of such cohabitation.
Read →At Boomplaas Cave, an antelope molar yielded the oldest DNA ever recovered in sub-Saharan Africa. Heat does not ne…
Read →Born in Kenya 1.76 million years ago, the Acheulean culture produced identical bifaces across three continents wit…
Read →A study published in Science reveals that Near Oceanian inhabitants carry 2.5 times more archaic DNA than European…
Read →At Tam Pà Ling in Laos, Homo sapiens remains dated to 86,000-68,000 years push our species' presence in Southeast Asia back by tens of millennia, supporting an early Out of Africa.
Read →Deep in Casablanca, the Hominid Cave of Thomas Quarry I has yielded skull fragments dated to 773,000 years ago, fi…
Read →In Israel, five red-ochre burials in fetal position show that Levantine Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared tools…
Read →At Ségognole 3, in the Fontainebleau sandstones, researchers show that a sandstone floor was Palaeolithic-carved t…
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