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Why AI Thinks Neanderthals Still Look Like 19th Century Monsters

Why AI Thinks Neanderthals Still Look Like 19th Century Monsters

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 7, 2026February 7, 2026

For more than forty years, technology has quietly reshaped how humans reach for knowledge. What once required shelves of books,…

This Battered Wrist Bone Finally Proves Hannibal’s War Elephants Weren’t Just a Legend

This Battered Wrist Bone Finally Proves Hannibal’s War Elephants Weren’t Just a Legend

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 7, 2026February 7, 2026

For centuries, the image has felt almost too dramatic to be real. Massive elephants lumbering across battlefields, armored and towering,…

That Famous Mummy Smell Is Actually a Hidden Chemical Message From the Past

That Famous Mummy Smell Is Actually a Hidden Chemical Message From the Past

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 7, 2026February 7, 2026

Anyone who has ever stood close to an ancient Egyptian mummy often remembers it not just with their eyes, but…

Archaeologists Found a Secret High Tech Pipeline Hidden Beneath the Sands of Petra

Archaeologists Found a Secret High Tech Pipeline Hidden Beneath the Sands of Petra

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 7, 2026February 7, 2026

At first glance, the hills around Petra look quiet, almost empty, as if centuries of wind and sun have erased…

Scientists Found a 14000 Year Old Mammoth Workshop That Changes Everything

Scientists Found a 14000 Year Old Mammoth Workshop That Changes Everything

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 3, 2026February 6, 2026

Fourteen thousand years ago, long before maps or borders or even names for continents, a group of people paused in…

Archaeologists Uncover Two Prehistoric Fetal Burials With a Hauntingly Personal Twist

Archaeologists Uncover Two Prehistoric Fetal Burials With a Hauntingly Personal Twist

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 2, 2026February 6, 2026

At the Chaparabad archaeological site in Iran, a ceramic vessel once used for cooking was quietly holding a far more…

Scientists Discover the World’s Oldest Handheld Wooden Tools at a Prehistoric Lakeshore

Scientists Discover the World’s Oldest Handheld Wooden Tools at a Prehistoric Lakeshore

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 2, 2026February 6, 2026

For hundreds of thousands of years, wood has been humanity’s quiet accomplice. It shaped shelters, stirred fires, dug soil, and…

Ancient DNA Solved the 12,000 Year Mystery of the Tiny Skeletons in the Cave

Ancient DNA Solved the 12,000 Year Mystery of the Tiny Skeletons in the Cave

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 1, 2026February 6, 2026

For more than sixty years, two bodies lay quietly at the center of an archaeological mystery. Discovered in 1963 in…

This Ancient Red Paint Is Hiding a Secret Language From 6,000 Years Ago

This Ancient Red Paint Is Hiding a Secret Language From 6,000 Years Ago

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayFebruary 1, 2026February 6, 2026

Around 5,500–6,000 years ago, the land that would one day be called Finland was alive with quiet movement along water…

Scientists Discovered the Secret Tech of Early Humans Living 160,000 Years Ago

Scientists Discovered the Secret Tech of Early Humans Living 160,000 Years Ago

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayJanuary 28, 2026February 6, 2026

For decades, the story of early humans in East Asia was told in muted tones. The region was often portrayed…

Scientists Unearthed a 1,500-Year-Old Mass Grave That Reveals the Moment a City Stopped Breathing

Scientists Unearthed a 1,500-Year-Old Mass Grave That Reveals the Moment a City Stopped Breathing

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayJanuary 26, 2026February 6, 2026

“A plague is upon us” may sound like a line from legend, but in ancient Jordan it was a lived…

The Ocean Has Been Lying to Archaeologists About the True Age of Human History

The Ocean Has Been Lying to Archaeologists About the True Age of Human History

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayJanuary 26, 2026February 6, 2026

Along the rugged northern coast of Spain, the past has always spoken in fragments. Charcoal buried in ancient hearths. Bones…

Ancient Rock Art Is Finally Being Heard as the Music of a Lost World

Ancient Rock Art Is Finally Being Heard as the Music of a Lost World

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayJanuary 26, 2026February 6, 2026

On the stone faces of southern Africa, figures bend, circle, clap, and transform. They are frozen in pigment, yet somehow…

The 4000 Year Old Medical Mystery of Why Ear Aches Were Considered Spiritual Alarms

The 4000 Year Old Medical Mystery of Why Ear Aches Were Considered Spiritual Alarms

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayJanuary 26, 2026February 6, 2026

Imagine being sick in ancient Mesopotamia. Your ear aches, your balance wavers, or a strange pain settles deep inside your…

Neanderthals Were Professional Mountaineers Who Braved the Italian Alps Long Before Modern Humans

Neanderthals Were Professional Mountaineers Who Braved the Italian Alps Long Before Modern Humans

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayJanuary 26, 2026February 6, 2026

The cave sits quietly at 1,450 meters above sea level, carved into the Italian Alps where the air thins and…

This Unassuming Bone Fragment Just Rewrote 500,000 Years of Human History

This Unassuming Bone Fragment Just Rewrote 500,000 Years of Human History

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayJanuary 26, 2026February 6, 2026

For decades, it sat quietly among other ancient finds, a pale fragment of bone pulled from the earth of southern…

This Neolithic Stone Tomb Stayed Spiritually Active for Over 5000 Years

This Neolithic Stone Tomb Stayed Spiritually Active for Over 5000 Years

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayJanuary 15, 2026January 15, 2026

Long before written history shaped memory, a vast stone monument rose from the landscape of what is now Antequera, Spain.…

Archaeologists Digging in Indonesia May Have Found the Exact Spot Where Two Human Species Met

Archaeologists Digging in Indonesia May Have Found the Exact Spot Where Two Human Species Met

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayJanuary 9, 2026January 10, 2026

Deep within the limestone heart of southern Sulawesi, a rugged island in the Indonesian archipelago, lies a portal to a…

Ancient Clay Cylinders Found in Iraq Reveal a King’s Secret Plan to Save a Crumbling Temple

Ancient Clay Cylinders Found in Iraq Reveal a King’s Secret Plan to Save a Crumbling Temple

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayJanuary 8, 2026January 10, 2026

Deep in the heart of modern-day Iraq, the winds of time frequently peel back the layers of the earth to…

Archaeologists Discover a 60,000 Year Old Murder Mystery Hidden on Stone Tools

Archaeologists Discover a 60,000 Year Old Murder Mystery Hidden on Stone Tools

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayJanuary 8, 2026January 10, 2026

In the rugged landscape of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, a shallow indentation in the earth known as the Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter…

Archaeologists Discover Early Medieval England was a Massive Melting Pot for Arctic and Mediterranean Travelers

Archaeologists Discover Early Medieval England was a Massive Melting Pot for Arctic and Mediterranean Travelers

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayJanuary 7, 2026January 7, 2026

Deep within the layers of English soil, tucked away in cemeteries that have rested quietly for over a millennium, lies…

This 3,000-Year-Old Iron Age Skeleton Was Carrying a Secret Traveler in Its DNA

This 3,000-Year-Old Iron Age Skeleton Was Carrying a Secret Traveler in Its DNA

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayJanuary 5, 2026January 5, 2026

In the quiet dust of an Iron Age grave in Italy, a young girl was laid to rest nearly three…

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