Hidden on a 3,500-year-old Babylonian clay tablet, this drawing of a ghost, visible only under light and at a certain angle, had never before attracted the attention of archaeologists and other experts. On this Babylonian clay tablet, we see a spirit being led into the afterlife by a woman. The d
A skeleton discovered in the ruins of Teotihuacan, Mexico, reveals practices of dental mutilation. Skull of a woman who lived 1600 years ago, discovered in the foreign communities district of the city of Teotihuacan (Mexico), showing dental encrustations. Teotihuacan, the cosmopolitan… The examina
A new study published by paleoanthropologists Antonis Bartsiokas and Juan-Luis Arsuaga investigates whether early humans had the capacity or ability to hibernate, just as many other animals such as bears or hedgehogs do. The results, surprisingly, suggest that they did. Evidence found in bones from
Remains of the historic tsunami that succeeded the famous Lisbon earthquake (1755) have been identified in Martinique by archaeologists and geophysicists. This etching from 1755 shows the ruins of Lisbon in flames and a tsunami submerging ships in the port. It has long been the archetype of the t