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Ancient Maya preferred to sacrifice boys, analysis of remains reveals
Newsweek· 6 days agoThe findings were made in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, which used to be home to the ancient city of...
Human remains from medieval castle reveal secrets of warrior monks
Newsweek· 24 hours agoA study of medieval human remains from a castle in Spain has unraveled fascinating insights into a...
Drinking Blood? Bronze Age Cauldrons Tell New Tales of Ancient Mongolian Cuisine
SciTechDaily· 11 hours agoA study reveals that Bronze Age Mongolian nomads used metal cauldrons for blood collection and milk...
DNA reveals mystery of Maya human sacrifice
Boing Boing· 6 days ago"There were two big moments of surprise here," said Rodrigo Barquera of the department of archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute ...
When smart speakers act dumb: 8 times Alexa et al got it wrong
What Hi-Fi? via Yahoo News· 1 day agoBut it wasn't just Amazon's devices getting it wrong. Academics at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (RUB) and...
Remapping global history through 5,500 years of malaria
UC Newsroom· 5 days ago...Megan Michel, a doctoral researcher at the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center Archaeoscience of...
Ancient Genomes Reveal Which Children the Maya Selected for Sacrifice
New York Times· 6 days agoIn the spring of 1967, workers building a small airport behind Chichén Itzá, the ancient Maya city...
A Liquid Crystal Source Of Photon Pairs
PhotonicsOnline· 6 days agoSpontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), as a source of entangled photons, is of great interest for quantum physics and quantum technology, but so far it could be only implemented in solids ...
Hidden tunnel under Mayan temple reveals new gruesome details of human sacrifices
The Independent via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe young relatives had consumed similar diets,-suggesting they were raised in the same household,...
A surprising history of malaria is revealed by clues from ancient bones
WAMC Northeast Public Radio· 5 days agoMalaria is at least 5,500 years old, the study found and might even be much older, the researchers...