Ancient

Neanderthals’ Ancient Glue Factory Reveals Ingenious Engineering

Archaeologists have unearthed a stunning example of Neanderthal ingenuity in a cave near Gibraltar: a 65,000-year-old tar-making hearth that served as an ancient glue factory. This discovery flips the script on how we perceive our ancient cousins, showing they weren’t…

November 21, 2024 ·by Asheley Rice· 0

Amazon Hides A Lot of History in the Form of Thousands of Ancient Structures

A team of researchers led by Vinicius Peripato, a remote-sensing scientist from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research, investigated traces of earthworks identified in an Amazonian area of 5,315 square kilometers in size. All the effort is thanks to LIDAR,…

October 10, 2023 ·by Georgia Nica· 0

Researchers Found Ancient Material in a Meteor

A team of researchers has made a remarkable discovery while analyzing a meteor that crashed in an area in the south of Australia in 1969. The meteorite contains the oldest material found on our planet in the form of dust…

January 17, 2020 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0