Just over 50 years ago, paleontologist Donald Johnson unearthed the remains of "Lucy," an ancient human relative who lived more than 3 million years ago. Now, another group of scientists have found new... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 months 1 week ago • 38 views • 7:47

A huge Mayan city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under jungle canopy in Mexico. Archaeologists found pyramids, sports fields, causeways connecting districts and amphitheatres in... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 months 2 weeks ago • 73 views • 2:29

Plimpton 322 is the name given to a 3,800-year-old clay tablet discovered in Iraq in the early 20th Century by archeologist Edgar J Banks, the man believed to have inspired Indiana Jones. Over time this... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 2 months ago • 59 views • 4:14

Few of the monsters that evolution created have been so successful at hurting us as the variola virus, responsible for smallpox. The carnage it caused was so terrible and merciless that it compelled humankind,... continue reading

posted by eric3579 1 year 8 months 1 week ago • 143 views • 11:09

Before NOVA begins its construction, the Rainbow Bridge only exists in a 900-year-old painting that shows the bustling capital city of Kaifeng. Another NOVA ancient construction episode, again narrated... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 66 views • 54:16

When humans first populated North America and how they arrived has long been a matter of spirited debate. A recent study detailing what archeologists believe are the oldest known footprints in the United... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years ago • 197 views • 6:26

An interesting and quick look at how the ancient Roman Civilization inhabitants dealt with their (not so) alone time.

posted by BoneRemake 3 years 1 month 1 week ago • 365 views • 5:40

"... Sharks wouldn’t be known for their fierce teeth today if it weren’t for their ancient scales..."

posted by ant 3 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 15 views • 3:59

From Youtube, "Let us explore the scientific mystery of what would happen to you if Earth suddenly turned into gold! The “Midaspocalypse”, based on the ancient tale of King Midas who was cursed so... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 1 month 1 week ago • 80 views • 9:17

The Nenet reindeer herders need to move their tent every few days throughout most of the year. Every time they migrate they must pack the whole tent away, drag it across the tundra on sledges, and erect... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 4 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 499 views • 32:14

The EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the earliest great work of literature that we know of, and was first written down by the Sumerians around 2100 B.C. Ancient Sumer was the land that lay between the two rivers,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 16 views • 3:56

YT: Discover the world’s largest organism: Pando, an enormous and ancient quaking aspen, and find out how it became so huge.

posted by Zawash 4 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,029 views • 6:28

YouTube description: Ahmed Darwish el Fakhouri spends his days surrounded by olive oil soap stacked up high—each precious bar waiting to be wrapped and sold after a drying out period of two to three... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 1 week ago • 351 views • 2:24

In a quiet corner of Kent State University, scientists are exploring innovative ways to study the past. We joined our friends at Gizmodo to visit Kent State University's Experimental Archaeology lab, where... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 45 views • 7:30

YouTube description: Sabra Kauka finds great joy in making the past present. A cultural practitioner on Kauai, she teaches Hawaiian children the arts of their ancestors, including kapa. In this physically... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 347 views • 4:13

YouTube description: At 15 years old, Tan Wei Tian already has a prolific 12 year opera career behind her. By day, she’s your average high school student, balancing schoolwork and friends; by night,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months 1 week ago • 296 views • 2:41

YT: We tend to think of fossils as dinosaur bones or petrified wood, but what if we told you that there's a lot we can learn from fossilized waste?

posted by Fantomas 6 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 72 views • 11:54

YouTube description: You can tell a lot about an animal from the way it moves, which is why scientists have been recreating the movements of an extinct crocodile-like creature called Orobates pabsti.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 443 views • 4:19

YT: In a field near Elberton, Georgia, USA, sit a set of mysterious standing stones: mysterious not because they're ancient, but because they were funded by someone anonymous in 1980, perhaps as a message... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 6 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 400 views • 3:08