IFL Science reports that England’s red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) may have spread leprosy to people during the medieval period, when the squirrels were plentiful and sometimes kept as pets or ...
According to a Live Science report, analysis of the contents of a Roman shipwreck found in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of the island of Majorca suggests that many of the 300 amphoras in the ...
BBC News reports that a ping-pong-ball-sized lump of Tyrian purple, a dye made from Murex sea snails, was uncovered in northwestern England at the site of a Roman bathhouse discovered in 2017. Carved ...
NBC News reports that the face of a Neanderthal woman dubbed Shanidar Z has been recreated by a team of scientists at the ...
According to an IFL Science report, leaders of the Puebloan peoples who lived in Chaco Canyon between A.D. 850 and 1150 may ...
Mexico News Daily reports that a bottle-shaped chultún, a structure usually used by the Maya to catch rainwater, has been ...
According to a Live Science report, researchers led by archaeologist Mariko Muramatsu of the University of Tokyo suggest that ...
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA—According to a statement released by the University of California, San Diego, a now-submerged village site suggests that it was inhabited some 8,200 years ago, during an ...
According to a statement released by Kiel University, traces of a late Neolithic settlement were mapped during a geophysical ...