The Boston Museum of Fine Arts recently returned a 3,200-year-old ancient Egyptian sarcophagus to a museum in Sweden where it disappeared decades ago. The painted coffin, which once housed the mummified remains of an ancient Egyptian boy named Pa-nefer-neb, had been missing from Gustavianum, the museum of Uppsala University, for over 50 years. Pa-nefer-neb lived […]
In a groundbreaking discovery in the arid deserts of northern Saudi Arabia, archaeologists have unearthed evidence that human beings once lived within cave-like lava tubes, marking the first instance such evidence has been found. The natural underground passages, formed during volcanic eruptions, have unveiled secrets dating back thousands of years. Lava tubes are created when […]
In an unprecedented scientific revelation, ancient soil samples have borne witness to the infiltration of microplastics, marking their presence in historical contexts where none would expect them. Researchers from the University of York in the U.K. have unearthed tiny plastic fragments in soil strata deep beneath the surface, hailing from the early centuries of the […]
It’s not Nessie, but a team of researchers found a fossil of a prehistoric long-necked aquatic dinosaur in southern China, the National Museums of Scotland announced Friday. The 240 million-year-old fossil of the species Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, dating to the Triassic period, was found in China’s Guizhou province. It had flippered limbs and an oceanic diet […]
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