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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.
Fossilized Handprints on Ancient Tibetan “Mud” Could Be the Oldest Parietal Art
Researchers publishing in the journal Science Bulletin may have found the oldest evidence of parietal art—immobile artwork commonly…
A Bronze-Age City May Have Been Destroyed By an Exploding Asteroid
3,600 years ago, in a city sitting 11.3 km (7 mi) northeast of the Dead Sea in what…
Historical “Guest Star” of 1181 Was Actually a Rare Supernova
Astronomers have been around for as long as humanity has pondered about the skies above us. Since antiquity,…
DNA Analysis Reveals “Tripartite” Japanese Genetic History
Japan has long held a particular position as a place of interest for archaeological studies for quite some…
New Study Finds Clothes-making May Go Back 120,000 Years
The natural and synthetic fibers wrapped around your body at the moment are truly a mix of function…
The Story of Cats (And How We Figure Into It)
This video from PBS Eons, hosted by Blake de Pastino, details how and when we might have encountered…
SpaceX Launches Historic Inspiration4 Mission
(To donate to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, feel free to visit the St. Jude page dedicated to…
Southeast Asia Had East Asian Heritage Before the Austronesians Ever Got There
It has long been recognized that the Austronesians, an ancient ethnolinguistic lineage of humans, were at least one…
Ancient Hominins Leaving Africa May Have Crossed a “Green” Arabia
There’s much evidence out there to suggest that ancient hominins—a group that also includes the ancestors of us…
9,000-Year-Old Evidence For Beer Brewing Found in China
An archaeological dig at Qiaotou, a town in the Zhejiang province of China, yielded a couple of clay…