Who were the tarim mummies?

After a decade and a half of excavations, archæologists have uncovered the naturally mummified remains of well over 100 indigenous Yakuts of north-eastern Siberia, one of the coldest places on Earth.

There’s plenty to criticise about that ancient approach We wouldn’t recognise the system practised in ancient Athens as democracy in the sense we understand it today. Women did not have the vote, and

Hoarding is a common animal behaviour. Lots of creatures cache food for times of scarcity. You probably know that squirrels hide nuts and wood mice store seeds, but did you know that fire ants stockpi

This week’s dream: a walk along the glorious ...

Dark-brown flakes discovered inside a 1,900-year-old Roman glass vial ...

Humans, not glaciers, transported Stonehenge’s megaliths across Great ...