This mummified kitten was strangled before its death, new micro CT scans show Two thousand years ago, an Egyptian priest picked up a baby cobra by its tail, whipped it through the air and slapped it hard against the ground.…
Richard the Lionhearted leads his Crusaders in battle against the Muslims at Arsuf. An archaeologist in Israel has located one of the Third Crusade’s key battlefields — the spot where Richard I of England, also known as Richard the Lionheart,…
One of the distinctive stone tools, made with an ancient flint-knapping technology known as Nubian Levallois, found at the archaeological site in the Negev Desert. About 130,000 years ago, an early wave of anatomically modern humans — — left the…
A ghostly image of an airplane shows up off the coast of Edinburgh on Google Earth. Zoom in on the waters off the coast of Edinburgh on Google Earth, and your eye may catch something strange. Is that a plane?…
Bruce Tucker was brought to the Medical College of Virginia Hospital on May 24, 1968, after falling and suffering a skull fracture. On May 25, 1968, surgeons in Richmond, Virginia, performed a successful heart transplant, one of the world’s first,…
Fires may have made humans more social by giving them a place to gather around. Fires blazed the way for humans to evolve into the species we are today. Scientists suspect that without a control over fire, humans probably would…
World War II, Warsaw ghetto during the German occupation. Homes where infectious diseases were detected, in this case typhus fever, were closed off from the surrounding area. When a deadly typhus outbreak struck Poland’s Warsaw ghetto during WWII, Jewish doctors…
The ancient Egyptian mummies of Horus (left) and Osiris (right) didn’t hold what their museum notes indicated they did. When scientists peered beneath the wrappings of two small ancient Egyptian mummies thought to hold human hearts, they were taken aback:…
“Meritamun” was inscribed on the mummy’s wrappings. And the researchers believe that when she was alive, Meritamun would have stood just under 5 feet (151 centimeters). An Egyptian woman who was mummified with her mouth open in a silent scream…
Archaeologists explore the vast Chiquihuite Cave in the Chiapas Highlands of northwest Mexico. The early inhabitants of North America left behind precious few clues of their existence — a footprint here, a weapon and a mummy there — leading scientists…
A digital rendering of the fourth-century B.C. Temple of Asklepios at Epidaurus (right). Notice the ramp on the temple’s east side. The ancient Greeks didn’t construct temples just for able-bodied people; this ancient society purposefully built ramps at some of…
A team of scientists discovered this hidden Pablo Picasso drawing beneath one of the artist’s abstract paintings. A hidden drawing by Pablo Picasso has been found beneath one of the artist’s abstract paintings, called “Still Life.” A team from the…