The oldest bottle of olive oil in the world was discovered in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, near Naples. This discovery is extremely important, as it sheds light on the molecular evolution of olive oil over time! The bottle has been displayed …

Broken stones buried 12,000 years ago have been found at Arene Candide, a cave that was used as a graveyard during the last Ice Age. In the Paleolithic era, Arene Candide was a sort of early necropolis. It is a cave in Liguria, Italy, in which 19 burial …

©Alex Friedrich It wasn’t. It is a gorgeous photo and a wonderful setting, it makes your imagination run wild, where exactly is it, would you be able to visit it, why was it abandoned… how has that very old bucket survived hanging in water like that…? …

It would have been a far more effective tank, at least in my opinion. The Tiger I, for its time, was a really great tank. While some people argue that it suffered to greatly from mechanical issues, similar to what it’s successors would experience, this …

Life reconstruction of Edmontosaurus. Credit: Full color Edmontosaurus reconstruction by Natee Puttapipat, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) A process of desiccation and deflation explains why dinosaur “mummies” aren’t as exceptional as …

A stack of coins was found to be an unlikely lifesaver when a Reddit user revealed that his great-grandfather narrowly avoided being shot during the First World War thanks to the change in his pocket. Belgian soldier Optatius Buyssens was carrying a stack …

A skull unearthed in East China might indicate that there is another branch to the human family tree, scientists have revealed. A group of scientists from around the world have identified a unique human fossil in China that distinguishes itself from any …

One of the mummies is examined at the Hospital QuirónSalud Madrid.NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM (MAN) The research team presented the results of the scans last week in the Spanish capital: two of the Egyptian mummies donated to MAN in 1887 were found …

She is to be kept in a special mausoleum at the Republican National Museum in capital Gorno-Altaisk, where eventually she will be displayed in a glass sarcophagus to tourists. For the past 19 years, since her discovery, she was kept mainly at a scientific …