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Ancient Egyptian Mummies Show Heart Disease 3,500 Years Before Modern Diets
CT scans of 137 ancient mummies, including Egyptians who died 1,500 years before the Common Era, revealed calcified arterial plaques in 38% of specimens — a landmark finding now on vivid display at Tampa Museum of Art's first-ever ancient Egypt exhibition.
Ancient DNA From Medieval Sicily Reveals 1,000 Years of Genetic Diversity
Researchers sequenced DNA from 111 individuals buried across medieval Sicily and found that the island's genetic diversity held firm across a thousand years of conquest and regime change — continuity, not replacement.
Herculaneum Scroll Read for First Time Using X-Ray AI — Uncut
Researchers have completely deciphered Pherc. 1667, a carbonized scroll from Herculaneum's ancient library, using virtual unwrapping powered by X-ray tomography and AI — the first intact burned scroll ever fully read without being physically opened.
9 Surprising Facts About Homo naledi’s Ancient Sex Markers
A proteomics study of 23 Homo naledi fossil teeth found a complete absence of male sex markers across every specimen — a statistically improbable result that is forcing scientists to rethink what they know about this enigmatic ancient human relative.
Ancient City of Tyre: What 4,000 Years of History Lies Underground
As Israeli airstrikes shake Tyre's Mediterranean waterfront, the rubble threatens one of archaeology's most irreplaceable underground archives — a compressed record of Phoenician, Roman, Byzantine, and Crusader civilization stretching back 4,000 years.
Milky Way Fossil Fragment Terzan 5 Reveals How Our Galaxy’s Bulge Formed
A dense star cluster called Terzan 5 has survived 12 billion years near the Milky Way's core, and new James Webb Space Telescope observations confirm it is a rare fossil fragment that preserves a record of how the galaxy's central bulge was assembled.Load More
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