More than 5,500 years old, the wooden board is one of the most ancient preserved doors in Europe. Archaeologist Jakob Messikommer uncovered the prehistoric object from the marshes in Wetzikon in ...

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This illustration provided by researchers in April 2025 depicts a Denisovan male in Taiwan in the Pleistocene era about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago. (Cheng-Han Sun via AP) (Cheng-Han Sun ...

Italian depiction of the god Mercury (Greek: Hermes) wearing a petasos, a wide-brimmed ancient Greek hat. Credit: Sailko / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 When one thinks of ancient Greece, the ...

The Old Crow mammoth's DNA was in the oldest group of samples in the analysis, described as "deep-time DNA," but it wasn't the oldest. The oldest DNA, from Russia, was around 1.3 million years old ...

Their research was based on, not DNA, but a series of techniques collectively called ancient protein analysis, or paleoproteomics. This process involves extracting proteins from the bone and tooth ...

On 10.04.2025, Sebastian Fink from the Department of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck organized a workshop entitled “New Approaches to the Sumerian ...

A Wheel of Fortune contestant will get a second chance to try and win more money after they lost $92,000 in the Bonus Round. The top three winners from the week get to come back on Friday and ...

An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, demonstrating the ...