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Collaboration helps people escape
Archeology

Collaboration helps people escape

Anthropologists have hypothesized that the first generation of people learned to live in groups and collaborate to avoid being eaten by predators. Previously, science be…

December 17, 2018
Co Loa Citadel is about to ... disappear
Archeology

Co Loa Citadel is about to ... disappear

Talking about the progress of preserving, embellishing and promoting the value of the national monument of Co Loa, Mr. Nguyen Van Quang, Vice Chairman of Dong Anh Distri…

December 17, 2018
Tyrannosaurus is an agile or sluggish animal?
Archeology

Tyrannosaurus is an agile or sluggish animal?

The Tyrannosaurus Rex species are predators or eat corpses? Their habits so far are still controversial. Two new American studies have made this species' portrait of this

December 17, 2018
Chicken also teething
Archeology

Chicken also teething

Chicken will teething if pigs could fly! Now, maybe you should start looking for a sky for those flying pigs, because scientists have discovered a mutant chicken with co…

December 17, 2018
Excavation of 'Jurassic beaver' in China
Archeology

Excavation of 'Jurassic beaver' in China

For a long time, the animals that lived with the dinosaurs were envisioned as tiny mice-like creatures, feasting on food under shrubs. Now, new discoveries about a hairy…

December 17, 2018
Found a giant dodo bird grave
Archeology

Found a giant dodo bird grave

A Dutch and Mauritius scientific team discovered bones in a swamp near a sugarcane field in the southeast of the island, including the beaks and bones of young birds. Th…

December 17, 2018
Dwarves are respected in ancient Egypt
Archeology

Dwarves are respected in ancient Egypt

Ancient Egyptians respected dwarfs and did not consider them physically impaired. A group of researchers at Georgetown University, USA, explored the biological traces an…

December 17, 2018
The oldest traces of human beings.
Archeology

The oldest traces of human beings.

Scientists have discovered some of the oldest traces of humanity in the Odulvai ravines, in Datavani (East Africa): that of human bones, stones, tools and the rest of a…

December 17, 2018
Found the oldest Maya script
Archeology

Found the oldest Maya script

Newly discovered hieroglyphs show that the Mayans used a complex writing system 150 years earlier than previously anticipated. The carvings, dating from around 250 BC, a…

December 17, 2018
Vikings decorate their front teeth
Archeology

Vikings decorate their front teeth

Researcher Caroline Arcini, from Sweden's National Heritage Committee, analyzed 557 skeletons taken from the Swedish Viking's large cemetery and found that about 10% of…

December 17, 2018
Iron Age people were savagely tortured
Archeology

Iron Age people were savagely tortured

Archaeologists have discovered two Iron Age corpses buried in peat in Ireland. Both are men, living more than 2,000 years ago, and being victims of a barbaric sacrificia…

December 17, 2018