What Was Hidden in Gibraltar’s Cliffs for 40,000 Years? Archaeologists Just Found OutArchaeologists unearthed a sealed chamber in Gibraltar's Vanguard Cave. This untouched space, sealed for 40,000 years, preserves a unique g...
13 Mar, 2026, 10.05 PM IST
Scientists Found Tiny Arrowheads in a Central Asian Cave… But Why Do They Date Back 80,000 Years?New discoveries in Uzbekistan are challenging old ideas about human migration. Tiny stone tools, dating back 80,000 years, suggest modern h...
12 Mar, 2026, 01.08 PM IST
What Did Early Humans Sound Like… and How Are Scientists Reconstructing Voices Lost for Millions of Years?Scientists are reconstructing the sounds of early human communication by examining fossil anatomy, primate behavior, and brain research. Ev...
12 Mar, 2026, 12.57 PM IST
Researchers Found One of the Earliest Genetic Evidence of a Human DiseaseA 12,000-year-old burial in Italy revealed two women, not a male and female as previously thought. Genetic analysis identified one, Romito ...
11 Mar, 2026, 04.00 PM IST
What Scientists Found at Boxgrove: How a 500,000-Year-Old Elephant Bone Tool Is Rewriting Early Human HistoryA remarkable discovery in southern England has rewritten history. Archaeologists found a 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer at the Boxgr...
11 Mar, 2026, 11.15 AM IST
Sealed for 20,000 Years… Who Left These Ice Age Footprints in a Spanish Cave? ExplainedArchaeologists discovered ancient human footprints in a Spanish cave. These impressions, left by children about 20,000 years ago, reveal mo...
28 Feb, 2026, 09.59 PM IST
Year Ender 2025: Top 7 scientific discoveries that shook the worldYear Ender 2025 Special: 2025 saw remarkable scientific leaps, from discovering the ancient MoM-z14 galaxy to the smallest pacemaker and ne...
28 Dec, 2025, 03.09 PM IST
They survived ice ages and hunted mammoths; so why did the Neanderthals suddenly disappear? Now a physicist blames something in the skyScientists explore the mystery of Neanderthal extinction. A new theory links their disappearance to the Laschamp event. This event weakened...
23 Jun, 2025, 03.46 AM IST
Advanced weapons built 80,000 years ago, unearthed in Russia, has no human connectionAn 80,000-year-old bone spear tip, unearthed in Russia, challenges previous assumptions about Neanderthal capabilities. This discovery sugg...
13 May, 2025, 12.18 PM IST
54,000 years ago, homo sapiens used bow-and-arrow, reveals 1st evidence from cave in southern FranceThe use of the bow-and-arrow in Africa has been documented to date back some 70,000 years.
23 Feb, 2023, 06.38 PM IST
Rituals may seem cumbersome but they are the bedrock of cultureRituals are what keep festivals alive for generations.
30 Dec, 2022, 11.40 PM IST
Civilisation & intoxication: When, where and why did humans start experimenting with alcohol & drugsToday, humans use thousands of psychoactive compounds to alter our experience of the world.
19 Jul, 2021, 06.33 PM IST
- Early humans were smarter than previously thought
New York, May 9 (IANS) Our ancestors predating Neanderthals might have been much smarter that we thought as researchers have found evidence...
09 May, 2017, 03.40 PM IST
- Neanderthals were adept at making tools, artefacts
London, Sep 21 (IANS) Neanderthals were far smarter than previously thought as researchers have confirmed that our ancient cousins were res...
21 Sep, 2016, 02.05 PM IST
World Heritage List: Other sites that made the cutMostly abandoned after a devastating earthquake in the 14th century, the ruins in Ani include a relatively well-preserved cathedral and hol...
24 Jul, 2016, 07.38 AM IST