The Egyptian writings, believed to date back to the 13th century BC, refer to encounters with the Shosu, a group described as ...

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P. antiquus grew as large as 13 feet tall at the shoulder and weighed over 29,000 pounds. At a fossil site in Rome, Italy paleontologists uncovered a set of straight-tusked elephant remains dating ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from archaeological human remains more than two millennia old. The study, led by the ...

Ancient inhabitants of the Arabian desert created monumental works of rock art on cliff faces, including life-sized images of camels, perhaps as a way to mark sources of water. Michael Petraglia, at ...