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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.
3 scientists win Nobel for ‘molecular architecture’
Three scientists have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing metal-organic frameworks, highly versatile materials with applications ranging from carbon capture to clean water.
12,000-year-old rock art marked ancient water sources in Arabia’s desert
Sahout Rock Art and Archaeology Project Maria Guagnin, University of Sydney; Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology; Ceri Shipton,…
The thousand-year story of how the fork crossed Europe, and onto your plate today
John of Gaunt dining with the King of Portugal, Chronique d’Angleterre, vol 3, late 14 century. Wikimedia Commons…
12,000-year-old smoked mummies reveal world’s earliest evidence of human mummification
12,000-year-old smoked mummies reveal world’s earliest evidence of human mummification A middle-aged woman, discovered in a tightly flexed position…
A massive eruption 74,000 years ago affected the whole planet – archaeologists use volcanic glass to figure out how people survived
Collecting microscopic glass samples at Border Cave in the Lebombo Mountains in South Africa. Katherine Elmes Jayde N.…
The legend of Troy explained
Helen and Paris depicted on an Ancient Greek vase, 380–370 BC. Wikimedia Commons Marguerite Johnson, The University of…
Uncovering the Uncomfortable Truths of Pompeii
A guided tour of Pompeii uncovers not only the ingenious engineering of the Roman Empire but also its sobering realities of exploitation and death, captured forever in volcanic ash.
Two seventh-century people found with west African ancestry – a story of diversity and integration in early Anglo-Saxon society
Duncan Sayer, University of Lancashire In 2022, archaeologists worked on the ancient DNA from a number of early…
Designing a “Keep Out” Sign to Last 10,000 Years
The proposed warning reads, "This is not a place of honor… What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us… The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours."
New finds shed light on Canopus – the ancient Egyptian port city lost to the sea
Claire Isabella Gilmour, University of Bristol This year has seen a number of artefacts recovered from the Mediterranean…