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The entrance to the Maszycka Cave. Credit: Darek Bobak.
An archaeological site at the Maszycka Cave in southern Poland reveals ancient burial rituals of late Ice Age humans, including dissection and cannibalism.
Gruesome evidence of cannibalism in Poland 18,000 years ago
Credit: Ricardo Gomez Angel
A new study of sediment cores from the Aegean Sea has found that lead pollution from human activities may have begun more than a thousand years earlier than previously thought.
Ancient Romans polluted the Aegean Sea with lead
Upper section of the 13th-century fresco showing the tent. Credit: Federica Gigante
A 700-year-old fresco found in an Italian church has provided more evidence of the presence of Islamic art in medieval European Christianity.
Islamic tent uncovered in medieval Christian church painting
Vessel supported by two rams, 2600 to 2500 BCE, object number 1989.281.3. Credit: Gift of Norbert Shcimmel Trust, 1989, open access Met Museum.
The earliest sheep-herding practices were discovered in central Turkey and showed that these ancient people had penned wild sheep in about 9000 to 8200 BCE.
The 11,000-year history of sheep domestication revealed by ancient DNA
Credit: Free University of Brussels.
Archaeologists have found more than 850 artefacts on the surface of a dried lake bed in Iraq’s Western Desert dating back to 1.5 million years ago. The finds help explain how early humans used the resources around them in the region.
Hand axes in Iraq up to 1.5 million years old
Image: Leonardo's sketches and drawings: Young princess. Credit: Getty/Ilbusca.
Leonardo was the first to depict a detailed study of the human spine, showing its natural curvature and correctly numbered vertebrae.
Leonardo da Vinci’s studies of anatomy don’t get recognition they deserve