Yaws — from the same bacteria species responsible for syphilis (Treponema pallidum) — is a childhood disease causing highly infectious skin lesions. It is spread via touch from person to person and, in...
Category - Archaeology
When good governments go bad
All good things must come to an end. Whether ruthless dictators or more well-meaning representatives rule societies, they fall apart in time, with different degrees of severity. In a new paper, anthropologists examined...
Myths About Vikings Busted
Now cutting-edge DNA sequencing of more than 400 Viking skeletons from archaeological sites scattered across Europe and Greenland will rewrite the history books as it has shown: Skeletons from famous Viking burial sites...
Wild birds as offerings to the Egyptian Gods
Mammals, reptiles, birds: the tens of millions of animal mummies deposited as offerings in the necropolises of the Nile Valley bear witness to an intense religious fervour, and to the practices of collecting and...