Scientists have drilled ice cores to analyze environmental changes for decades, but now the technique is being applied to a less appealing medium: Bat poop. Researchers discovered a veritable mountain of guano deep in a cave in Jamaica, deposited over the course of 4,300 years. Left largely undisturbed, the pile stands more than six feet … Read more
It is said to be the earliest and only known image of the Crucifixion – a depiction of human-like figure with the head of a donkey nailed to a cross. The anti-Christian ‘graffito’ was etched into a plaster wall of an imperial training school for ancient Roman slaves between 50AD and 250AD. Beneath the cross … Read more
First humans who crossed the Bering Strait some 15,000 years ago had indigenous Australian DNA that is now found in the bloodline of South America tribes, study finds Previous work found ancient Australian DNA in modern-day Amazonians However, a new study finds the ancestral DN runs deeper in South America A genetical analysis found tribes along the Pacific … Read more
It is said to be the earliest and only known image of the Crucifixion – a depiction of human-like figure with the head of a donkey nailed to a cross. The anti-Christian ‘graffito’ was etched into a plaster wall of an imperial training school for ancient Roman slaves between 50AD and 250AD. Beneath the cross … Read more
Trunks, stumps and roots of ancient trees from 6,000-year-old forest are uncovered by lowest tide of the year on Cornish beach Submerged forest in Mount’s Bay, Cornwall, typically hidden beneath sand and shingle of the sweeping bay Bay overlooks the tidal island of St Michael’s Mount, which is connected to Marazion by man-made causeway Petrified … Read more
Blobs of rock lurking deep inside the planet could be the last remaining pieces of Theia, an early world that collided with Earth billions of years ago, a new study claims. The moon is thought to have formed from a ‘giant impact’ early in the evolution of the solar system when a Mars-sized planet called Theia collided … Read more
Ancient kangaroo which weighed 60kg and could climb trees is discovered for the first time – and researchers say it could change what we know about Australia’s landscape Research on ‘Congruus kitcheneri’ found it lived half on land, half in trees Bones found on the Nullarbor Plain, challenging a belief it was always treeless Researchers … Read more
HS2 diggers have started clearing a corner of ancient woodland that helped inspire Roald Dahl in order to build the £98bn high-speed railway line. Around 1.7acres of Jones Hill Wood, which stretches across 4.4acres in the Buckinghamshire countryside, is set to be dug up in order to make way for the project. The ancient woodland, … Read more
Lorry driver is jailed for two years for trying to smuggle ancient coins, arrowheads and statues into UK to sell for Bulgarian mafia bosses Dimitar Dimitrov, 41, was working as courier for Bulgarian organised crime gang Officers found ancient coins, pendants, brooches and spearheads in the trailer Dimitrov denied any knowledge of artefacts which are … Read more
Scientists have been working for more than a century to decipher the Antikythera Mechanism, which is a 2,000-year-old device used by ancient Greek’s to calculate astronomical positions. Now researchers at University College London (UCL) believe they have solved the mystery of the ‘world’s oldest computer’ by building a digital replica with a working gear system … Read more