A 5,000-year-old necropolis lights up the birth of the pyramids
At Jabal al-Tayr in Middle Egypt, a vast necropolis five millennia old reveals the evolution of funerary architecture, from the tombs of earliest pharaonic Egypt to…
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At Jabal al-Tayr in Middle Egypt, a vast necropolis five millennia old reveals the evolution of funerary architecture, from the tombs of earliest pharaonic Egypt to…
Read →A First Art team, with the Max Planck Institute, has recovered ancient human DNA straight from the walls of eleven caves in Spain and Portugal. The walls could beco…
Read →By sequencing DNA from 27 Neanderthals across ten caves in Belgium and France, a Max Planck team shows they formed a well-connected regional population , free from inbreeding, with no genetic deterioration, and no gene flow from Homo sapiens despite millennia of coexistence.
A re-examination of a 120,000-year-old fossil child reveals a mosaic of sapiens and Neanderthal traits, one more piece in the case for ancient, complex interbreeding.
Some sixty footprints fossilised in gypsum push back human arrival in North America by several millennia.
At this twin site of Göbekli Tepe, a monolith nearly 12,000 years old bears a sharply defined human face. Never seen before.
Read →A University of York study published in Antiquity shows that Mohenjo-daro, the largest city of the Indus Civilisat…
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