6-year-old in China dies after experimental treatment, investigation finds, raising questions about the country’s gene therapy regulations
Science and Retraction Watch have actually released an extensive examination into the case of a girl in China who passed away after being provided a speculative gene treatment. (Image credit:…
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17,000-year-old stripes of red in a Welsh cave are the oldest rock art in the UK, study finds
For a century, specialists dismissed a series of parallel red lines found in a Welsh cavern as a phenomenon of nature instead of human-made rock art. A brand-new research study…
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1,200-year-old gold hoard discovered in Saudi Arabia may have been buried by a medieval pilgrim
Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have actually uncovered a clay pot loaded with gold, silver and gemstone-encrusted fashion jewelry that might have been buried by an Islamic pilgrim en path to…
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800-year-old ‘hugging skeletons’ are genetically confirmed as Poland’s only medieval same-sex double burial
The “hugging skeletons” in Opole, Poland, throughout excavation (top) and an unassociated burial (bottom). (Image credit: Magdalena Przysiężna-Pizarska) About 800 years back, 2 individuals were buried in an accept in…
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950-year-old burial of a pet dingo is first clear archaeological evidence of humans ritually ‘feeding’ a grave anywhere in the world
A 950-year-old dingo burial in Australia has actually produced the very first clear historical proof of human beings ritually “feeding” a severe throughout the world, a brand-new research study reports….
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8-year-old African American boy from Colonial Maryland found buried with white Colonists, and it’s unclear if he was enslaved
A composite picture of Anne Wolseley Calvert, whose skeletal remains excavated from a 17th-century cemetery have actually been superimposed onto a picture of what she might have appeared like in…
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500-year-old gold dental bridge is earliest known oral care of its kind in Scotland — and it likely held a fake tooth
A guy’s lower jaw recuperated from a middle ages church in Aberdeen exposes the earliest recognized usage of an oral bridge in Scotland, a brand-new research study discovers. The gold…
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1,900-year-old souvenir cup featuring Hadrian’s Wall and Roman forts discovered in Spain
The Berlanga Cup was discovered in 4 pieces. (Image credit: Roberto De Pablo) An opportunity discovery of a damaged bronze cup in Spain has actually exposed a 1,900-year-old representation of…
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Altar to Sol: A rare 1,900-year-old monument dedicated to the Roman god of light and used in a secret underground ritual
The altar to Sol was pierced from behind so that light might shine through. (Image credit: © National Museums Scotland) FAST FACTS Call: Altar to Sol What it is: A…
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780,000-Year-Old Charcoal Reveals How Early Humans Mastered Fire
Hominins at the Acheulian website of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov in Israel count on driftwood collected along a lakeshore to sustain their hearths, according to brand-new research study led by archaeologists…
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