A rare 2,500-year-old marble disc, designed to protect ancient ships and ward off the evil eye discovered near Palmachim Beach A rare 2,500-year-old marble disc designed to protect ancient ships and ward off the evil eye was discovered by a lifeguard diving at sea and turned over to the Israel Antiquities Authority. The Israel Antiquities …

Denny, a mysterious child from 90,000 years ago, whose parents were two different human species More than 90,000 years back in time, a unique child was walking the Earth. This individual was a young human hybrid. Scientists dubbed the ancient girl “Denny,” the only known individual whose parents were from two distinct human species! In …

A Siberian cave filled with mammoth, rhino, and bear bones is an ancient hyena lair Inhabitants of Siberia have stumbled upon a remarkable prehistoric time capsule in what paleontologists consider the largest hyena lair ever found in Asia. The cave was untouched for 42,000 years and held a variety of animal bones. Fossils of various …

Ancient Siberian worm came back to life after 46,000 years, and began reproducing! A novel nematode species from the Siberian permafrost shares adaptive mechanisms for cryptobiotic survival. A report from the Washington Post detailed a remarkable discovery by scientists: a female microscopic roundworm had been preserved in the Siberian permafrost for 46,000 years, and when …

Mysterious 5,500-Year-Old Sumerian Star Map Recorded Mᴀssive Asteroid Hit To Earth A 5,500-year-old clay tablet discovered in the 19th century in the underground library of King Ashurbanipal in Nineveh is an astronomical treasure. The ancient “document” excavated in present-day Iraq by Sir Henry Layard offers unprecedented insight into astronomical observations that took place more than …

Well-Preserved, 42,000-Year-Old Baby Woolly Mammoth Emerges From Yukon Permafrost A 42,000-year-old baby mammoth is set to go on display for the first time in Western Europe next month at the Natural History Museum. Lubya, who was named after the wife of the Siberian reindeer herder that found her, has been described as the most complete …

World-First Fossil Shows Dinosaur Sitting On Clutch Of Eggs Like A Bird It’s hard to imagine a mighty T. rex kneeling delicately above a clutch of eggs, but new research surrounding a fossilized oviraptor suggests that this behavior may have indeed been practiced by some dinosaurs. The first non-avialan dinosaur (species outside of the clade …

Ancient ‘unknown’ script finally deciphered 70 years after first being discovered Researchers have partially deciphered the “unknown Kushan script” — a writing system that has puzzled linguists since it was first found in the 1950s. The researchers decoded the ancient text using rock face inscriptions that were discovered near the Almosi Gorge in northwest Tajikistan …

Japanese scientists ‘reawaken’ cells of 28,000 Old woolly mammoth Her name is Yuka: an ancient woolly mammoth that last lived some 28,000 years ago, before becoming mummified in the frozen permafrost wastelands of northern Siberia. But now that icy tomb is no longer the end of Yuka’s story. The mammoth’s well-preserved remains were discovered in …