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This ancient Egyptian left behind 4,500-year-old DNA. It was used to recreate his face.
Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...
Babylonian text missing for 1,000 years deciphered with AI
A team of ancient literature experts have deciphered a Mesopotamain text that was missing for over 1,000 years. Etched on ...
Ancient Egyptian genome reveals North African roots and Fertile Crescent ancestry
Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the ...
What did ancient Rome smell like? Honestly, often pretty rank
We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there’s evidence of ...
What Are Emoji?
What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...
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Homer’s Greek Was Never a Spoken Language, Yet It Lives on in Modern Greek
Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...
Drunk American Tourist Wrecks Ancient Japanese Temple
An American tourist on Tuesday caused significant damage to a 761-year-old temple in Japan. The unnamed suspect, described as intoxicated, forced his way inside Shoden Eigen‑in Temple through a rear ...