Fragments of a star catalog from the second century B.C. have turned up in a manuscript that had been erased and written over centuries later. A new analysis of the religious manuscript shows that the ...

Ancient DNA and proteins identify China’s nearly complete “Dragon Man” skull as Denisovan. The fossil, at least 146,000 years ...

Ramses VI faced a smelly challenge when he became Egypt’s king in 1145 B.C. The new pharaoh’s first job was to rid the land of the stench of fish and birds, denizens of the Nile Delta’s fetid swamps.

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. The astronomical ceiling in the tomb of Seti ...

What does it mean to be human? For a long time, the answer seemed clear. Our species, Homo sapiens—with our complex thoughts and deep emotions—were the only true humans to ever walk the Earth. Earlier ...

Earth-like features on a distant world! Dan Smith shows how a few ripples on Mars are making waves in the geology community.

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