Researchers have uncovered the fossilized remains of an ape species named Anadoluvius turkae, which may challenge the prevailing theory that the ancestors of African apes and humans evolved exclusively in Africa.
Mummification of the deceased is a fairly well-known practice from ancient times. Most notably, the Egyptians utilized a mummification process that led to today’s cliché image of a deceased body covered in gauzy wrappings. The discovery of mummified remains in several caves in the Philippines represents a different type of mummy – the fire mummy.
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The “Petralona Man,” or “Petralona Archanthropυs” is a for 700,000 years old hυмan skυll foυnd in 1959. Since then, scientists have tried to locate the origin of…
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Archaeologists in Mexico have unearthed a remarkable burial in the ancient ruins of Teotihuacan containing a 1,600-year-old skeleton of an upper-class woman with an elongated skull, stone encrusted te