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News – Ancient DNA Pinpoints Culprit Responsible for World’s First Pandemic  Archaeology Magazine The “Plague Of Justinian” May Have Been The First Pandemic. DNA At A Mass Grave Has Finally Identified Its Cause.  IFLScience Scientists discover bacterium responsible for first epidemic in human history  Caliber.Az The Justinian Plague: How climate and trade fuelled the first pandemic in history  Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1,500-year-old mystery …

In 1960, a villager found something terrifyingly creepy in Greece’s Petralona cave—a humanoid cranium with a protrusion on its forehead, fused to the cave wall. Since then, researchers have been trying to date the strange specimen and understand how it got there, but these efforts so far have yielded only a frustratingly broad age range of between around 170,000 and …

Evidence Blue Indigo Was In Use A Staggering 34,000 Years Ago  Ancient Origins Archaeologists Find Traces of Indigo Dye on 34,000-Year-Old Grinding Tools from Georgia  Sci.News Traces of blue indigo on 34,000-year-old grinding tools suggest new Paleolithic plant use scenarios  Phys.org Ancient Humans Used Indigo Plant 34,000 Years Ago: First Evidence of Non-Food Plant Processing Found in Georgia  Arkeonews New Evidence Reveals Humans Were …

IN A NUTSHELL 🌍 Researchers discovered vast reserves of natural hydrogen beneath the Earth’s crust. 🔬 The study highlights two primary mechanisms for hydrogen generation: water-rock reactions and radiolysis. 📊 Geological settings for potential hydrogen accumulation are found globally, suggesting universal accessibility. 💡 Despite challenges, natural hydrogen offers significant environmental and economic benefits as a clean energy source. The quest …

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A landslide in Norway around 800 B.C. likely covered a cult site that archaeologists have finally uncovered 2,800 years later. An excavation working ahead of a highway expansion project found clues to past human activity under the landslide. Key finds included longhouses, a burial mound, and carved stones likely associated with …

Photographer Osama Fathi has captured a stunning view of Perseid meteors crossing the bright ribbon of the Milky Way over the ruins of an ancient settlement in Egypt dedicated to the worship of the crocodile god Soknopaios. The image was captured from the Soknopaiou Nesos archaeological site to the north of Qarun Lake in northeastern Egypt on the night of …

The DNA of pathogenic bacterial species known to cause blood poisoning in African elephants has been found in the teeth and bones of prehistoric mammoths.Credit: aleks1949/Shutterstock An analysis of the bones and teeth of ancient mammoths (Mammuthus) has identified some of the microorganisms that lived in the animals’ mouths and bodies more than one million years ago. The study, published …

Ancient DNA solves mystery behind world’s first pandemic  Euronews.com DNA study reveals origin of world’s first pandemic that swept through Mediterranean  The Independent World’s first pandemic mystery solved: Scientists uncover Yersinia pestis through ancient DNA after 1,500  The Times of India DNA reveals plague bacteria behind the first pandemic  The Jerusalem Post Secrets of plague bacterium revealed by mass grave  The Independent Source link

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed fresh light on one of Europe’s most important human fossils, the Petralona cranium, discovered in a cave in northern Greece more than six decades ago. Long the …

Ever wanted to know more about the ground beneath your feet? Well, thanks to a new geologic map of the lower 48 states of the USA, now you can – and in more detail than ever before. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. Geologic maps are pretty …