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We are makers of history, yet we are also molded by it. The line connecting us to our ancestors spans decades, centuries, and millennia; the lessons learned from our progenitors are passed down the generations through timeless stories and discovered remnants of our enigmatic yet beautiful past. Modern Sciences recounts the passage of time, how humanity has shaped it, and how it has shaped humanity.
Did Neanderthals use rhinoceros teeth as tools?
Alicia Sanz Royo, University of Aberdeen; Camille Daujeard, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN), and Juan Marín Hernando, UNED…
Spider fangs are one of their scariest features – new fossils reveal their origins
Mark Williams, University of Leicester; Lorenzo Lustri, Yunnan University; Tom Harvey, University of Leicester, and Yu Liu, University…
Megalodon’s legendary life revealed by fossil rediscovery
David Hone, Queen Mary University of London Museums are supposed to be havens for the collective cultural and…
I study the Declaration of Independence, and here’s why the colonists’ grievances are surprisingly relevant, 250 years later
Robert Parkinson, Binghamton University, State University of New York The Declaration of Independence, with its block of cursive…
House of the Dragon: four real historic women who inspired the show
Stacy Olive Jarvis, University of Birmingham Dragons may be fictional, but the struggle for the throne, influence and…
Earth’s oldest crater really is over 3 billion years old, new study confirms
Chris Kirkland, Curtin University In the Pilbara of Western Australia, some of Earth’s oldest rocks lie beneath the…
A 5.3 million‑year‑old whale graveyard has been found on the floor of the Indian Ocean
Vanessa Pirotta, Macquarie University When a whale dies, a very special natural phenomenon can come alive. The carcass…
A ‘supereruption’ transformed NZ 350,000 years ago. We now know how it happened
Anna Miller, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Some 350,000 years ago, the centre of New…
Galloway Hoard exhibit in Sydney dives into the secrets of the Viking world
Louise D’Arcens, Macquarie University In the popular imagination, the phrase “Viking hoard” might evoke images of plunder stashed…
Why was an Egyptian mummy stuffed with a fragment of Homer’s Iliad?
Stephan Blum, University of Tübingen and Stefan Baumann, KU Leuven Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old…