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Ancient people cure toothache with beeswax
Archeology

Ancient people cure toothache with beeswax

New research has found beeswax used to cure cracks in the neck 6500 years ago of the ancient people in Slovenia (Italy). This may be one of the very rare examples of ear…

December 17, 2018
Humans know to eat plants from 180,000 years ago
Archeology

Humans know to eat plants from 180,000 years ago

Scientists believe that modern humans began to appear in Africa after genetic changes helped them to adapt to plant foods. This change makes modern humans can leave the…

December 17, 2018
Detecting giant bones as high as 3m
Archeology

Detecting giant bones as high as 3m

Scientists have discovered they have discovered very tall human skeletons dating back 24 to 25 thousand years in the Borzomsky ravine (Georgia). Experts claim it is the…

December 17, 2018
The mysterious Gene made the ancient people talk
Archeology

The mysterious Gene made the ancient people talk

Now, researchers believe that they have explained the missing link in the evolutionary chain: a double gene named SRGAP2, which appears in the gibbon population about 2.…

December 17, 2018
Fire may appear 1 million years ago
Archeology

Fire may appear 1 million years ago

Human ancestors first gathered around the fire 1 million years ago, 300,000 years earlier than the previous theory.

December 17, 2018
Build houses with mammoth bones
Archeology

Build houses with mammoth bones

This is a circular house, made up of 116 large bones including skull, jaw, 14 tusks and elephant leg bones. Inside with at least 25 furnaces filled with ash shows that i…

December 17, 2018
The 25,000-year-old painting
Archeology

The 25,000-year-old painting

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences magazine on November 7 published a 25,000-year-old painting of ancient black-spotted white horses.

December 17, 2018
What language did the ancients use?
Archeology

What language did the ancients use?

According to some linguists, all current languages ​​are derived from a primitive language. But few people know what language did the ancestors of human beings use?

December 17, 2018
The secret of awe of an ancient Mexican group
Archeology

The secret of awe of an ancient Mexican group

For a long time, it has always been believed that the ancient isolated people of northern Mexico existed because of their own foods such as corn. However, more than 30 p…

December 17, 2018