Ancient Maya Cities Appear to Have Been Riddled With Mercury Pollution

Toxic levels of a pollutant commonly associated with the wastes of modern industry have been uncovered...

Ancient 15,000-Year-Old Viruses Found in Melting Tibetan Glaciers

Ancient creatures are emerging from the cold storage of melting permafrost, almost like something out...

Mummified Baby From Centuries Ago May Have Died From Lack of Sunlight

For centuries, the crypt of one of the oldest aristocratic families in Austria has preserved...

70 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Egg Fossils Have Been Discovered in China

Ancient dinosaur egg fossils thought to be some 70 million years old have been discovered at a...

Mysterious iron pillar of 1,600 years old stainless steel
Mysterious iron pillar of 1,600 years old stainless steel

In the countryside of western India, there is an iron pillar cast in the 5th...

Giant 180 million-year-old ‘sea dragon’ fossil found in UK reservoir

A 33ft long fossil of an ichthyosaur, the largest UK example of a predator that...

The World’s First Cloned Wolf Has Reportedly Been Born in China

A Chinese pet-cloning company has announced the birth of the world’s first cloned Arctic wolf...

Humans Evolved From A Common Ancestor That Appeared 6 Million Years Ago

Throughout our evolution timeline, we coexisted with several early human species and descended from a...

Egypt: 2,000-year-old mummies unearthed with golden tongues

The golden amulets were placed in the mouths of the dead “to ensure they could...

The Egyptian mummification process

Since ancient times, the ancient Egyptians invented a way of handling corpses, called mummification. Previously,...