A recreation of Dragon Man Chuang Zhao Three years ago, a Chinese farmer made an unusual donation to a university museum—a giant, nearly intact human skull with strange proportions and an unusual backstory. The man’s family had been hiding the fossil …

Researchers identified that these vertebrae belonged to giant snakeheads, freshwater fish native to Southeast Asia. Ryan Kennedy About 135 years ago, in a Chinatown in San Jose, California, the leftover bones from a luxurious fish landed in a communal …

The 5,500 year old cat remains found more than a decade ago in China have been identified as the leopard cat ( Prionailurus bengalensis ) by an international team of scientists, led by Sorbonne University researcher Jean-Denis Vigne. Leopard cat. Tambako …

An international research group has found evidence that humans have been utilizing milk and dairy products across the northern Mediterranean region from the onset of agriculture – approximately 9,000 years ago. C.D. Spiteri et al discovered widespread …

A team of professional and amateur archaeologists believe they may have discovered the monastery of Aebbe (615-683 CE), a powerful Anglo-Saxon woman who helped shape British history. Coldingham Priory. Image credit: DigVentures / Aerial Cam. Born a pagan …

In the 16th century, the Calusa , a fisher-gatherer-hunter society, were the most politically complex polity in Florida, and Mound Key , an island in Estero Bay off Florida’s Gulf Coast, was their capital. The available evidence indicates that the Calusa …

The oldest map in Europe, a “lost golden city” in Egypt and a massive geoglyph in India that may be the world’s largest are just some of the archaeological discoveries that were reported in 2021. Despite all the problems associated with the ongoing COVID-19 …

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In January 2023, a group of archaeologists excavating tombs in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, near Cairo, discovered the mummified remains of a man named Hekashepes, who lived circa 2300BC. Found inside a limestone …

The accurate agricultural calendar allowed the ancient inhabitants of the Basin of Mexico to plan their agricultural cycle to feed one of the largest population densities on Earth, as well as maintaining rituals associated to the solar seasons; to achieve …