Archeologists find Roman shipwrecks off Egypt's north coast
Egypt says archaeologists have discovered three sunken shipwrecks dating back more than 2,000 years to Roman times off the coast of the city of Alexandria.
Archaeology
Nov 21, 2017
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Chile to ask British Museum to return extinct mammal remains
Chile announced on Sunday that it will ask the British Museum in London to return the remains of a mylodon, an extinct mammal that lived in Patagonia about 10,000 years ago.
Archaeology
Nov 5, 2018
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DNA is often used in solving crimes. But how does DNA profiling actually work?
DNA profiling is frequently in the news. Public interest is sparked when DNA is used to identify a suspect or human remains, or resolves a cold case that seems all but forgotten.
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 12, 2022
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People in Europe ate seaweed for thousands of years before it largely disappeared from our diets—new research
Seaweed isn't something that generally features today in European recipe books, even though it is widely eaten in Asia. But our team has discovered molecular evidence that shows this wasn't always the case. People in Europe ...
Archaeology
Oct 25, 2023
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Britain to return Aboriginal remains to Australia
A British museum said Thursday it had agreed to return 138 sets of skeletal remains of indigenous people to Australia in what it hailed as a new approach to the delicate subject of repatriation.
Archaeology
Mar 10, 2011
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New forensics research will help identify remains of children
New research from North Carolina State University is now giving forensic scientists a tool that can be used to help identify the remains of children, and may contribute to resolving missing-persons cases, among other uses. ...
Other
May 13, 2010
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Otago scientist excavates medieval Uzbek cemetery
An Otago scientist has been digging up human remains in the backyards of Uzbek villagers to discover how people lived in the Middle Ages.
Archaeology
Nov 25, 2019
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Mummy unwrapping brought Egyptology to the public
Mummies have been objects of horror in popular culture since the early 1800s—more than a century before Boris Karloff portrayed an ancient Egyptian searching for his lost love in the 1932 film "The Mummy." Public "unwrappings" ...
Archaeology
Oct 30, 2012
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Remains of Mexican 'ape woman' return home from Europe
The remains of Julia Pastrana, a Mexican who was paraded in fairs and circuses as the "ape woman" in 19th century Europe, have returned home from Norway 153 years after her death.
Archaeology
Feb 12, 2013
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Human environmental genome recovered in the absence of skeletal remains
Ancient sediments from caves have already been proven to preserve DNA for thousands of years. The amount of recovered sequences from environmental sediments, however, is generally low, which confounds the analyses performed ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 12, 2021
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