Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans ...

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The pre-Columbian city of El Tajin is thought to have been built by an indigenous people whose culture predated the Aztecs.

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To Masson, Delgado Kú, and their colleagues, Mayapan’s story contradicts the idea that the Maya disappeared, or even that the ...

More archeological excavation is needed to clarify exactly what this pit was used for. “Roman society was full of superstition, something experienced on a daily basis,” the Norton Disney History and ...

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The winter solstice is a special day at the Ancient Egyptian temple complex at Luxor on the Nile River. On the northern hemisphere’s shortest day of the year, the first rays of sunlight in the ...

The Nekromanteion, meaning ‘oracle of the dead,’ was an ancient temple dedicated to the god of the Underworld, Hades, and his consort, the goddess Persephone. The ancient Greeks believed that while ...

A huge Maya ... temple pyramids, where Maya people would have worshipped, hidden treasures like jade masks and buried their dead. It also had a court where people would have played an ancient ...