Read more about the article Discovery Of Child Burials Reveals Poverty Of Aztec Empire Survivors
Detail of skull pathology, found at 95 Argentina Street in the Lagunilla neighbourhood in Mexico City, Mexico.. (Juan Carlos Campos Varela, INAH/Newsflash)

Discovery Of Child Burials Reveals Poverty Of Aztec Empire Survivors

The discovery of the graves of four pre-Hispanic children has given an insight into the difficult living conditions that followed the fall of the Aztec Empire. Named after the property…

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Read more about the article Britain’s Earliest People Lived On Canterbury Outskirts Up To 620,000 Years Ago, New Study Says
Artist reconstruction of Homo heidelbergensis making a flint hand axe. (Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Illustration by Gabriel Ugueto/Newsflash)

Britain’s Earliest People Lived On Canterbury Outskirts Up To 620,000 Years Ago, New Study Says

Some of Britain's earliest humans lived on the outskirts of Canterbury in Kent between 560,000 and 620,000 years ago, a groundbreaking new study has revealed. The study, which was led…

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Read more about the article Scientists Create World’s Largest Chimp DNA Genome From Poop
Given the almost complete absence of chimpanzee fossils, the genetic information from current populations is crucial for describing their evolutionary history, according to German and Spanish scientists. (Pixabay/Newsflash)

Scientists Create World’s Largest Chimp DNA Genome From Poop

An international team of experts has compiled the world's largest wild chimp genomic catalogue by sequencing DNA found in hundreds of samples of ape poo. The team was led by…

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Read more about the article Chunk Of DNA Inherited From Neanderthals Makes Humans More Likely To Get COVID But Less Likely To Get HIV
DNA analytics in the lab. (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology/Newsflash)

Chunk Of DNA Inherited From Neanderthals Makes Humans More Likely To Get COVID But Less Likely To Get HIV

A piece of DNA that many humans have inherited from the Neanderthals makes it more likely to get a serious bout of COVID-19 but 27 percent less likely to get…

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Read more about the article Scientists Discover Burial Sites Of Residents Killed In 19th Century Pandemic
They have verified the constant occupation of what is now the Guerrero colony, since the late Postclassic (1250-1521) when it was the seat of Mexican families. (Meliton Tapia, INAH/Newsflash)

Scientists Discover Burial Sites Of Residents Killed In 19th Century Pandemic

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Mexican scientists have discovered 17 burial sites containing the remains of citizens who died during a pandemic in the 19th century. One leading scientist said: “It is striking that this…

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Read more about the article Mayan Pots Used To Collect Water From Stalactites Found Still In Cave A Thousand Years Later
One of the archaeological objects found in the cave, which have been dated to the Late Postclassic period of the Maya (1200-1550 AD), near Chemuyil, Mexico, in November, 2021. (Antonio Reyes-INAH-Quintana Roo/Newsflash)

Mayan Pots Used To Collect Water From Stalactites Found Still In Cave A Thousand Years Later

Experts have found Mayan pots that were placed under stalactites to collect water in a cave almost a thousand years ago and were still in the cave today. One of…

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