Pine, balsam and bitumen! The smell of a mummified Egyptian corpse was chemically recreated by a French perfumer.
Author: Dilek Yazıcı
A kid finds 1800 year old roman coin, silver denarius in a sandbox while playing
An 8 year old boy named Bjarne found a silver denarius, a Roman coin minted 1800 years ago, while playing in the sandbox at his elementary school in Bremen, Germany.
Ancient Mayan nose ornament made of human bone discovered in Mexico
An unusual nose ornament used during ceremonies made of human bone was found in an ancient Mayan city in Mexico.
Pleistocene extinctions in Southern California caused by humans and fires
The Pleistocene extinctions of 13,000 years ago were caused by a warming and drying environment and human caused fires.
Pre Inca people worshiped thunder god on a unique dance floor
Nearly a century before the Inca Empire came to power in 1400 AD, people worshipping the god of thunder may have lived high in the Andes.
Monkeys may have evolved upright stature in forested habitat for leaf, not fruit
We thought that apes developed an upright stature trunk to gather fruit in the forests, but it may have been to reach the leaves.
Excavations start at a possible WWII execution site in France
After the confession that German soldiers were executed during the World War II, excavations began at the executed site.
2,000 year old Iron Age coin treasure for the first time discovered in Wales
A coin treasure has been discovered scattered in an open field in Anglesey, an island in Wales, United Kingdom.
A skull discovered in China suggests a different kind of humans
A 300,000 year old skull has been found in China and reek features of both humans and more distantly related hominids.
500 million year old jellyfish fossil discovered in Burgess Shale
Paleontologists claim to have found an ancient jellyfish, whose body resembles modern moon jellies and box jellies.