Before horses, ass hybrids were bred for warfare
The 4,500-year-old iconography and texts from Mesopotamia show that the elite used equids for travel and warfare; however, the nature of the...
Archaeologists discover ancient highways in Arabia
Archaeologists from The University of Western Australia have discovered people who lived in north-west Arabia in the Early to Middle Bronze ...
Recovering mantle memories from river profiles
The continent of Africa has a distinctive physical geography—an "egg carton" pattern of basins and swells—that researchers attribu...
Earth’s interior is cooling faster than expected
The evolution of our Earth is the story of its cooling: 4.5 billion years ago, extreme temperatures prevailed on the surface of the young Ea...
New study sheds light on origins of life on Earth
Addressing one of the most profoundly unanswered questions in biology, a Rutgers-led team has discovered the structures of proteins that may...
Risky food-finding strategy could be the key to human success
It’s a cold and rainy Sunday afternoon: would you rather be running after tasteless wild berries, or curled up on your couch with fuzzy sock...
Rare African script offers clues to the evolution of writing
The world's very first invention of writing took place over 5000 years ago in the Middle East, before it was reinvented in China and Cen...
World's earliest fossil record of flower buds discovered
Angiosperms may be distinguished from their gymnosperm peers by their flowers, and thus a flower is a good proxy of fossil angiosperms. Flor...
Strong evidence shows Sixth Mass Extinction of global biodiversity in progress
The history of life on Earth has been marked five times by events of mass biodiversity extinction caused by extreme natural phenomena. Today...
European archaeologists back in Iraq after years of war
After war and insurgency kept them away from Iraq for decades, European archaeologists are making an enthusiastic return in search of millen...
Earliest human remains in eastern Africa dated to more than 230,000 years ago
The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognised as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. Now, d...
Fossil shows evidence of gymnosperm pollination of alienopteridae
Alienopteridae were originally proposed as a new insect order (Alienoptera) in 2016. At first, they were only found in mid-Cretaceous Burmes...
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Revealed: Parthenon Marbles were pillaged and should be returned to Greece, Boris Johnson argued as student
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