Archeology
How does smoking change the structure of human bones?
A new study has opened up a breakthrough in understanding the impact of tobacco on human health over the centuries.
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Archeology
World's oldest wine jar contains cremated human bones
The world's oldest wine jar containing a man's ashes in a Roman tomb sheds light on 1st century burial practices.
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Why are dinosaur fossils more abundant than human bones?
With their long lifespan, large number of species, and large body size, dinosaurs left behind significantly more fossil bones than humans.
Scientific works
Why do Asians only have 204 bones while Europeans and Americans have 206?
We all know that a normal adult human body has a total of 206 bones, including: 29 skull bones, 51 trunk bones and 126 limb bones. However, after research, it has been s…
Space science
The truth about the photo of 'human bones' on the surface of Mars
This photo appeared a few years ago, but has been widely shared recently.
Archeology
Detecting the wall of human bones 500 years old
Archaeologists found a series of walls made of human bones inside the old Saint-Bavaria church in the city of Ghent.
Cancer
Find out which cells 'lock' cancer right in the human bone
A bizarre change of bone cell function has just been identified by US scientists, the prospect of creating a new method of locking metastatic cancer.
Discover science
10 interesting things about the human skeleton
The adult skeleton consists of 206 units, connected to a network, performing many functions such as shaping the body frame, supporting movement and producing new blood c…
1001 mystery
Decoding giant bones in Italy
The tumor in the pituitary made a boy of Roman times taller than 2 meters, much larger than the average height of the people of the time.
1001 mystery
Mysterious lake bone giant on the Himalayan peak
Once a year, when the frost melting the ice covered the Himalayan top of Roopkund, hundreds of human skeletons appeared, sprawled in the middle of the lake.
1001 mystery
The mystery is revealed from 35 infant skeletons
The skeletons were preserved for nearly a century in 35 small boxes, each containing enough of an infant's complete skeleton, estimated to be about 1,800 years old.
Archeology
Mysterious church crypt 2,500 sets of remains
The basement is considered one of the two medieval chapels in England still keeping the original 'human remains'.
Archeology
The oldest fossil bone human excavated outside Africa
This discovery is the oldest human fossil bone outside Africa and Levant, the area surrounding the eastern Mediterranean (including Israel) and the largest human remains…
Archeology
Find the most ancient human bones in unexpected places
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, about 100km west of what is today the city of Marrakesh of Morocco, a group of people living in the cave noticed the lush landscape o…
Archeology
The mystery of the broken bones in an ancient English village
In the village of Wharram Percy, North Yorkshire, England, archaeologists have discovered many broken bones that, according to them, villagers do so to prevent zombies f…