800-year-old ‘hugging skeletons’ are genetically confirmed as Poland’s only medieval same-sex double burial
About 800 years ago, two people were buried in an embrace in a prominent church in Poland. Now, a new DNA analysis of the “hugging...
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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 produced the first clear archaeological evidence of humans ritually “feeding” a grave anywhere in the world, a new...
Anglo-Saxon burial holds an older sister cradling her little brother after they both died 1,400 years ago, possibly of an infectious disease
Two Anglo-Saxon children interred together 1,400 years ago were brother and sister, an analysis of the skeletons’ DNA reveals — a confirmed familial link that...
Shroud of Turin, claimed to be Jesus’ burial cloth, contaminated with carrot and red coral DNA
The Shroud of Turin, which some people claim is Jesus’ burial cloth, contains the DNA of multiple people, along with a huge array of other...
1,900-year-old double Scythian burial in Ukraine contains toxic red mineral
Archaeologists in Ukraine have discovered red lumps of cinnabar — a mineral form of the highly toxic chemical mercury sulfide — in a 1,900-year-old double...