Archaeologists recently uncovered a seven-metre-thick defensive wall at Mohenjo-daro, one of the significant ancient cities of the Indus Valley Civilization in ...

Researchers have found dozens of human bones on the banks of the iconic river, many of them thousands of years old. By Alexander Nazaryan Archaeologists in Norway have confirmed that an ancient set of ...

When paleontologists dig up a fossil from the ground, how do they figure out the age of the piece of history? It’s not as simple as you may think. To discover more about jaw-dropping finds–like the ...

A project at China's Zhejiang Normal University (ZJNU) has applied laser spectroscopy to bomb-peak dating, potentially assisting a number of carbon-dating and forensic applications. Bomb-peak dating ...

A cave wall covered with Paleolithic drawings of animals, including, from left, a bison in black facing left, a deer in red facing right, and a bison in red facing right. Researchers used a suite of ...

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