What do you get when archaeologists find a cache of ancient seeds buried deep in frozen soil? Something that shouldn’t be possible according to our understanding of biology. Yet scientists have managed to resurrect plants from seeds that predate the Roman Empire, proving that life can remain dormant far longer than anyone imagined. These ...
Along shrinking shorelines and dusty riverbeds , a quiet reveal is underway: petroglyphs and inscriptions that spent decades beneath silt and water are blinking back into the light. The immediate story is dramatic – stone panels emerging where boat ramps once met lapping waves – but the deeper arc is about climate, time, and ...
The story of Athens isn’t just told in its statues and temples—it’s etched into the ground beneath our feet. Imagine standing in a bustling Athenian street, unaware that just meters below lies a maze of ancient secrets, quietly waiting to be uncovered. Every tremor, every shift of the earth, has played a role in revealing ...
Across deep time, shifting climates didn’t just rattle landscapes – they rewired what it meant to be human. From droughts that squeezed early ancestors into risky experiments to wetter pulses that opened green corridors across continents, environmental swings set the stage for our biggest leaps. Today, scientists are piecing together this story from lake mud, ...
Across the windswept uplands of northern Laos, thousands of massive stone jars sit silently in the grass, as if a vanished people had stepped away and never returned. Archaeologists have mapped scores of jar fields and logged more than two thousand vessels, yet a definitive answer to their purpose remains elusive. The stakes are not ...
Under the desert’s hard light, a new picture is forming of how ancient Egyptians turned one of the Nile’s most fearsome hunters into sacred relics. Recent fossil finds and scans of crocodile mummies suggest a surprisingly simple, sometimes brutal routine – more sun and sand than secret potions. For years, scholars assumed thick resins, natron ...
For thousands of years, the Andes were a hotbed of spiritual creativity, where people found communion with the god in the very fabric of nature. At the center of this divine connection was Chavín de Huántar, a vast ceremonial site in Peru that flourished 1200–400 BCE, in labyrinthine galleries of stone and monolithic giants, priests ...
Archaeologists have found a lost city deep in the rough highlands of northern Peru. It was once a busy trade center over 3,000 years ago. Peñico is an ancient city that is now open to the public. It gives a rare look at a civilization that connected coastal, mountain, and Amazonian societies long before the ...
People thought that leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, came to the Americas with European colonizers hundreds of years ago. But a new study that is changing the way we think about this has come out. Researchers looking at 4,000-year-old skeletons from Chile have found genetic proof of Mycobacterium lepromatosis, a rare and severe form ...
A team of scientists has recently sequenced the oldest and most complete genome from the Egypt known as the “Ruler of Nekhen”. The man lived between 4500–4800 years ago which is contemporaneous with the dawn of the Old Kingdom. His groundbreaking findings show he was genotypically linked with North Africa and greatly associated with Mesopotamia, ...
Maria Faith Saligumba
