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9,000 years ago, people in the Levant covered skulls with plaster to remember their dead
The Times of India 13 Jun 2026
Archaeologists in the Levant discovered a 9,000-year-old skull with a plaster cast, offering new insight into how ancient people remembered their dead.
Wild mystery: Koalas all but vanished from Earth 100,000 years ago
New Atlas 13 Jun 2026
As my new study published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution shows, koalas experienced a population crash about 100,000 years ago ... a major population decline roughly 40,000 years ago.
Eratosthenes: The Ancient Greek Who Measured the Earth More Than 2,000 Years Ago
Greek Reporter 12 Jun 2026
Over two thousand years ago, Eratosthenes heard that in Syene, a town south of Alexandria in Egypt, no vertical shadows were cast at noon on the summer solstice, as the sun was directly overhead.
Stone Age Cave Dwelling Found Exactly As It Was Left 17,000 Years Ago
IFL Science 12 Jun 2026
Dated to 16,800 years ago, the living space in ... It was at this time – around 17,000 years ago – that a rockfall blocked the entrance to the cave, sealing its contents like a prehistoric time capsule.
Approximately 10,000 years ago, teenagers in what is now western Sweden chewed wads of birch ...
SpaceDaily 12 Jun 2026
The post Approximately 10,000 years ago, teenagers in what is now western Sweden chewed wads of birch bark pitch and spat them out, and the saliva preserved in the wads contained enough human and ...
Cave provides insight into prehistoric life 300,000 years ago
Heritage Daily 11 Jun 2026
Archaeologists have uncovered a remarkably well-preserved prehistoric cave near the Zichron Yaakov interchange, in northern Israel, offering rare insights into human life hundreds of thousands of years ago ... Dr ... Image Credit . IAA ... Photo. Emil Aladjem.
The Oldest Cheese Ever Found May Have Been Offered As Food For The Afterlife Over 3,000 Years Ago
IFL Science 11 Jun 2026
About two decades ago, archaeologists discovered a strange white substance scattered across the heads and necks of ancient mummies in the Xiaohe cemetery, in northwestern China’s Tarim Basin.
Did you know? An Indian visitor signed Egypt's royal tombs 2,000 years ago
India Today 10 Jun 2026
Did you know An Indian visitor signed Egypts royal tombs years ago ... .
How Stonehenge's stones reached the site 5,000 years ago: New study might have an answer to the puzzle
The Times of India 10 Jun 2026
But how did it happen thousands of years ago, with no ... Dogger Bank was drowned by rising seas between 7,000 and 8,000 years ago, while the Altar Stone reached Stonehenge only around 5,000 years ago.
Koala numbers crashed across Australia 100,000 years ago. Global glacial cycles are likely to blame
Phys Dot Org 09 Jun 2026
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Headless skeletons offer new insights into farming societies 7,000 years ago (CAU - Christian-Albrechts-Universität)
Public Technologies 08 Jun 2026
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Five people walked into a pitch-black cave 14,000 years ago with a dog and burning branches; scientists found their footprints
The Times of India 08 Jun 2026
Around 14,000 years ago, a small group of people did exactly that when they entered a cave in what is now northern Italy.
Headless skeletons offer new insights into farming societies 7,000 years ago
Phys Dot Org 08 Jun 2026
Headless skeletons offer new insights into farming societies 7,000 years ago (2026, June 8) retrieved 8 June 2026 from https.//phys.org/news/2026-06-headless-skeletons-insights-farming-societies.html.
Honey recovered from Egyptian tombs sealed more than 3,000 years ago can remain edible because ...
SpaceDaily 05 Jun 2026
The post Honey recovered from Egyptian tombs sealed more than 3,000 years ago can remain edible because honey’s low water content, acidic pH, and bee-made peroxide chemistry make it almost impossible ...
A Cold Case From The Ice Age: Someone Butchered This Mammoth 26,000 Years Ago In A Place That Was Too Cold For Humans To Live
IFL Science 03 Jun 2026
Between about 29,000 and 25,000 years ago, western ... In Germany and the surrounding countries, all previously established human populations vanished from the archaeological record about 29,000 years ago.