Scientists Found Miraculously-Preserved Tattoos on the Hands of 1,000-Year-Old Mummies
One of the first applications of laser-stimulated fluorescence in anthropology, the tattoos contain lines only 0.1 millimeter ...
Archaeologists Just Found a ‘Treasure Trove’ of Era-Spanning Artifacts
Archaeologists with the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) made a series of discoveries ...
Costco Is Selling a Tool-Storage “Haven” Barn Shed—And They’ll Even Install It for You
Note: If you are not a Costco member or prefer to shop elsewhere, keep reading. Our preferred choices on sheds from Amazon ...
Scientists Think Ancient ‘Sun Stones’ May Have Been Volcanic Sacrifices
Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately ...
Archaeologists Discovered a Hoard of Roman Coins Hidden in a WWII Minefield
Amateur archaeologists discovered a gold coin in a field, leading to a full-fledged search that revealed 141 Roman-era gold ...
Archaeologists Just Uncovered A One-Of-A-Kind Ancient Ritual Site
Archaeologists believe they’ve fully excavated eight rooms carved from stone, which were used for ritual practices during the ...
Scientists Have Proven It’s Possible to Bring a Dead Brain ‘Back to Life’—But There’s a Catch
They removed a slaughterhouse pig’s brain from its head and deprived it of oxygen at room temperature for four hours. Then, ...
After 15 Years, Scientists Finally Opened This Mysterious Ancient Vessel
The vessel, which dates back to the Shang dynasty, contained a liquid that (upon analysis) was revealed to be distilled ...
The Cascade Mountains Have Been Hiding a Precious Natural Resource. A Research Team Just Found It.
The American West is hungry for water, and scientists just found a previously unmapped aquifer three times the size of Lake ...
A Farmer Was Working In His Field—and Found a 1,700-Year-Old Roman Mosaic
A farmer discovered a 900-square-foot mosaic from the third century in his field in Turkey. Covered by a thin layer of soil, ...
Scientists Used a 1.7-Mile-Long ‘Time Machine’ to See Into Earth’s Climate Past
“We have a strong indication that the uppermost 2,480 meters contain a climate record that goes back to 1.2 million years in ...
Researchers Are Testing How Cold They Can Make Indium—It Might Result in a New State of Matter
Indium belongs to a group of elements that has never been brought to an ultracool state before, but a team of researchers has ...