An archaeologist from Cornell University has applied a statical analysis to narrow down the time range for the Theran eruption in the Holocene epoch.
The Theran eruption, also called the Minoan eruption devastated the Greek island of Santorini….
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Byzantine solar eclipse records illuminate obscure history of Earth’s rotation
Japanese researchers investigated ancient texts from the 4th to 7th centuries AD to identify five total solar eclipses near the Eastern Mediterranean and improve the model of the Earth’s rotation over time
Tsukuba, Japan—Witnessing a total…
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Scientists uncover crimes from a millennium ago in extreme cold case mummies
How frequent was violence in prehistoric human societies? One way to measure this is to look for trauma in prehistoric human remains.
For example, a recent review of pre-Columbian remains found evidence of trauma from violence in 21% of males. So…
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Researchers find earliest known stone-age surgery from 31,000 years ago
Griffith University and a multi-national team of archaeologists have found the skeletal remains of a hunter-gatherer, whose lower left leg was amputated by a skilled prehistoric surgeon 31,000 years ago.
The discovery, published in Nature, is…
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Padlocked ‘vampire’ grave found in Poland with sickle over neck
Archaeologists from the Toruń Nicholas Copernicus University have found a grave from the 18th century, containing a ‘female vampire’ buried with a sickle over the neck to prevent her ascension to vampirism.
The concept of a blood-sucking…
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Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that could be completely covered in water
An international team of researchers led by Charles Cadieux, a Ph.D. student at the Université de Montréal and member of the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx), has announced the discovery of TOI-1452 b, an exoplanet orbiting one of…
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Sustainability of the Nile since the construction of the Aswan Dam
For thousands of years, the people of North Eastern Africa have relied on the Nile River as their primary source of life sustaining water.
One of the longest rivers in the world, the Nile flows for over 4100 miles from Lake Victoria to the…
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Medieval map shows ‘lost’ islands of Cardigan Bay
A map found in the Bodleian Library shows two ‘lost’ islands in Cardigan Bay, possibly indicating the legendary sunken kingdom from Welsh mythology, Cantre’r Gwaelod.
Cantre’r Gwaelod was a land said to be west of present-day Wales….
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Early humans were drawn to Kalahari during water-rich periods
Evidence of water-rich periods in the Kalahari attracted early humans, according to a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE.
The Kalahari is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa, named from a Setswana word kgala or “great…
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Underwater snow gives clues about Europa’s icy shell
Below Europa’s thick icy crust is a massive, global ocean where the snow floats upwards onto inverted ice peaks and submerged ravines.
The bizarre underwater snow is known to occur below ice shelves on Earth, but a new study shows that the same…
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