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Tomb of ancient Egyptian dignitary who read top secret documents discovered
17th May 2022 | livescience.com | Ancient, Humans

A team of archaeologists in Egypt has discovered the 4,300-year-old tomb of a man named Mehtjetju, an official who claimed that he had access to “secret” royal documents.

‘Homo sapiens is too arrogant: Call us Homo faber, the toolmaker’
17th May 2022 phys.org | Ancient, Humans

We need to dispel the arrogant and misguided idea that modern humans are superior to earlier human species.

Potentially Alive 830-Million-Year-Old Organisms Found Trapped in Ancient Rock
16th May 2022 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Animal Life, Earth

An incredible discovery has just revealed a potential new source for understanding life on ancient Earth.

Underground city unearthed in Turkey may have been refuge for early Christians
16th May 2022 | livescience.com | Ancient, Humans

Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have unearthed a vast underground city that was built almost 2,000 years ago.

Ancient Genes Reveal Early Farmers’ Origins as More Complicated Than We Thought
16th May 2022 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Humans

Once thought to have originated and spread culturally from a single population in what’s now the Middle East, farming drastically changed our world and continues to do so to this day, for both better and worse.

Black hole: First picture of Milky Way monster
13th May 2022 | bbc.co.uk | Humans, Space

This is the gargantuan black hole that lives at the centre of our galaxy, pictured for the very first time. Known as Sagittarius A*, the object is a staggering four million times the mass of our Sun.

Europe’s first psychedelic drug trial firm to open in London
13th May 2022 | theguardian.com | Humans, Misc.

Startup Clerkenwell Health hopes to help make UK a world leader in psychedelics research.

Giant sinkhole with a forest inside found in China
13th May 2022 | livescience.com | Earth, Humans, Weird

The sinkhole is 630 feet (192 meters) deep, according to the Xinhua news agency, deep enough to just swallow St. Louis’ Gateway Arch.

Why seeing the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is such a big deal
13th May 2022 bigthink.com | Humans, Space, Weird

The astrophysics community is abuzz. On May 12 at noon, the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration will hold a news conference at which a major announcement will be made.

Several Mysterious Human-Made Pits Have Been Revealed Near Stonehenge
13th May 2022 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Humans

Stonehenge has been intensively studied for centuries. Yet even now, we are still discovering new aspects of the famous site. An archaeological ‘biopsy’ of the surrounding landscape has revealed a hidden network of large pits encircling the stone structure.

Spooky Discovery on Mars Looks Just Like an Alien Doorway
12th May 2022 | sciencealert.com | Space, Weird

One of the most recent snaps beamed back from the Curiosity rover on Mars has revealed a rather interesting feature in the rocks: what looks to be a perfectly carved out doorway nestling in the Martian landscape.

Ancient DNA gives new insights into ‘lost’ Indigenous people of Uruguay
12th May 2022 phys.org | Ancient, Humans

The first whole genome sequences of the ancient people of Uruguay provide a genetic snapshot of Indigenous populations of the region before they were decimated by a series of European military campaigns

‘Our ancestors are in the rocks’: Australian gas project threatens ancient carvings – and emissions blowout
12th May 2022 | theguardian.com | Ancient, Earth, Humans

Custodians of petroglyphs in remote north-west say Woodside’s $12bn ‘carbon bomb’ spells disaster for culture and climate.

Astronomers discover asteroid treasure trove in old Hubble Space Telescope data
12th May 2022 | space.com | Ancient, Space, Tech

Astronomers have revealed the trails of nearly 1,500 new asteroids hidden in data gathered by NASA’s most venerable space telescope.

Cannabis users expect cannabis-assisted therapy for depression to work as well as psilocybin-assisted therapy
12th May 2022 | psypost.org | Humans, Misc.

Psilocybin-assisted therapy has shown promise as a treatment for depression. New research published in Cannabis finds that cannabis users expected that cannabis-assisted therapy could produce similar subjective experiences and have similar therapeutic benefits for the treatment of depression as psilocybin-assisted treatment.

Did ancient Greek philosophers believe in aliens?
11th May 2022 bigthink.com | Ancient, Humans, Space

The concept of aliens is quite old. Long before human civilization developed a scientifically accurate understanding of the cosmos, people across the world looked up at the sky and wondered what was out there.

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