Enlarge / This is not what a healthy lumbar vertebra is supposed to look like. Scorrano et al. 2022 reader comments 21 with 20 posters participating Share this story The eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried the Roman city of Pompeii in ash in 79 CE. Anthropologists recently sequenced ancient DNA from one of the victims, ..
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Ida Marie Odgaard AFP reader comments 107 with 54 posters participating Share this story Roughly a thousand years ago, a young man in his early 20s met a violent end in England. 800 kilometers (500 miles) away, in Denmark, an older man who had survived a lifetime of battles died sometime in his 50s. At ..
Crevecoeur and Antoine 2021 reader comments 61 with 43 posters participating Share this story When archaeologists in the 1960s unearthed a 13,400-year-old cemetery at Jebel Sahaba in Sudan, it looked like they’d stumbled across the aftermath of a large-scale battle fought during the Pleistocene. At least half the people buried at the site, which straddles ..
Enlarge / This painted vessel, which depicts a bird, is one of two found in the ambassador’s grave. Cambridge University Press reader comments 79 with 42 posters participating Share this story The bones of a Maya ambassador suggest a life of privilege but not necessarily comfort and ease, even though he was a high-ranking official ..
reader comments 48 with 33 posters participating Share this story Archaeologists working near the small Croatian village of Potočani made a grim discovery in 2007. In a shallow pit, just a meter deep and two meters wide, they found the jumbled bones of at least 41 people. Radiocarbon dating on several of the bones revealed ..
Saleem and Hawass 2021 reader comments 42 with 34 posters participating Share this story CT scans of a mummified Egyptian pharaoh, once suspected to be the victim of a palace assassination, suggest that he was actually executed after being captured in battle in the mid-16th century BCE. Pharaoh Seqenenre led his army from Upper Egypt ..
Enlarge / The arrows point to bony growths called external auditory exostoses, or swimmer’s ear, in the skull of a Neanderthal from La Chapelle-aux-Saints, in France. reader comments 41 with 32 posters participating Share this story Swimmer’s ear happens when constant exposure to cold water irritates tissues in the ear canal, causing bony growths to ..