A chicken egg surrounded by human feces inside an ancient cesspit for 1,000 years has been unearthed in Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said on Wednesday. The complete egg was discovered in an industrial complex dating back to the Byzantine period, in what is now Yavne. ‘Eggshell fragments are known from earlier periods, for … Read more
Examining fish bones dating back thousands of years found at 30 archaeological sites in Israel enabled Ariel University in Israel researchers to uncover the dietary secrets.
Examining fish bones dating back thousands of years found at 30 archaeological sites in Israel enabled Ariel University in Israel researchers to uncover the dietary secrets.
Horses reintroduced to North America by settlers in the 1500s were descendants of those that went extinct 11,000 years ago, a study has found. Analysis of ancient bones and teeth has found similar DNA in horses that died out at the end of the last ice age in North America and those in Eurasia that … Read more
Scientists have found a way to control the human brain using a protein lurking inside a creature known as ‘vampire fish’ that has lived on Earth for hundreds of millions of years. US scientists used a protein from a lamprey, which is an ancient lineage of jawless fish similar to eel, to turn off brain circuits … Read more
What could be a nearly 400-year-old butterfly has been discovered pressed between the pages of an ancient library book at Cambridge University. The perfectly preserved specimen, thought to be a small tortoiseshell, was found inside a copy of England’s earliest insect book, Theatre of Insects, published in 1634. The butterfly could be as old as the … Read more
High resolution photos of the ancient Black Stone at the heart of Mecca’s holy Kabba have been revealed for the first time by the Saudi Arabian government New images of the Black Stone took more than 50 hours to capture and develop Relic is said to date back to the time of Adam and Eve, … Read more
High resolution photos of the ancient Black Stone at the heart of Mecca’s holy Kabba have been revealed for the first time by the Saudi Arabian government New images of the Black Stone took more than 50 hours to capture and develop Relic is said to date back to the time of Adam and Eve, … Read more
Kim Kardashian has denied knowing about an Ancient Roman statue which was part of a $750,000 shipment in her name that was seized by customs officials in 2016 because it was ‘looted, smuggled and illegally exported from Italy’. The limestone statue, which dates back to the first century, shows the lower half of a woman … Read more
Kim Kardashian has denied knowing about an Ancient Roman statue which was part of a $750,000 shipment in her name that was seized by customs officials in 2016 because it was ‘looted, smuggled and illegally exported from Italy’. The statue, which shows the lower half of a woman from the waist down, is entitled Fragment … Read more