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'Zeus made night from mid-day': Terror and wonder in ancient accounts of solar eclipses
For millennia, solar eclipses like the upcoming one on April 8 have inspired awe, wonder and fear. Here are some of the most intriguing accounts of solar eclipses from ancient Greece to the Mayan empire.
Eating meat may not have 'made us human,' contrary to popular theory
Meat-eating may not have made us human after all, say paleoanthropologists.
Facial reconstructions help the past come alive. But are they accurate?
Feature DNA analysis is changing the science of facial reconstructions and making them more lifelike than ever before.
Unknown 'anatomically modern human lineage' discovered from 40,000-year-old hip bone
Fossil found in France is not quite modern human and not quite Neanderthal.
Strange, 300,000-year-old jawbone unearthed in China may come from vanished human lineage
Fragments of a jaw bone unearthed in China have a mosaic of features that are present in both modern and archaic humans, making it difficult to place on the human evolutionary tree.
Humans were in South America at least 25,000 years ago, giant sloth bone pendants reveal
Humans were living in Brazil earlier than previously thought, prehistoric sloth-bone pendants suggest.
Mystery Stone Age holes in England have archaeologists asking, 'What were these pits for?'
Archaeologists in England have found up to 25 large pits dotting the countryside, but their purpose remains a mystery.
Lost Maya city discovered deep in the jungles of Mexico
Archaeologists discovered a lost Maya city hidden in the jungles of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
