The ancient Mayan civilization continues to fascinate archaeologists, historians, scientists, and enthusiasts of events anchored in ancestral times, offering a rich dowry of landmarks and relics; one of the most enigmatic of these is the tomb of the Red Queen. It is a surprising burial chamber …
Russian anthropologists succeeded in reconstructing the appearance of three Egyptian pharaohs: Amenhotep III, Ramses I and Merenptah. By the end of 2019, British Egyptologist Howard Jones sent to a specialized institute in Moscow X-ray photographs of three mummy heads from British Museum collection. Only one …
The appearance of Homo erectus, about 2 million years ago, marked a crucial turning point in the evolution of human-type hominids, who were our direct predecessors. What characterized the erectus is the relatively large brain volume, it averaging 930 cm3 and being exactly 50% larger than …
A pandemic is a disease that affects almost the entire population of a region or continent, usually in a short time. If we look back into history, humanity has faced several pandemics that, after killing tens of millions, have finally disappeared. How did history's worst pandemics …
Nawarla Gabarnmang is a large rockshelter located in remote Jawoyn Aboriginal country in southwestern Arnhem Land, Australia. Within it is one of the oldest cave paintings in the world (the oldest painting, according to some archaeologists). Much older than Stonehenge, the ancient monument of Gobekli Tepe …
