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Hides that reveal: DNA helps scholars divine Dead Sea Scrolls

Dan Williams and Rinat Harash, Reuters
Posted at Jun 03 06:52 AM

JERUSALEM - Genetic sampling of the Dead Sea Scrolls has tested understandings that the 2,000-year-old artifacts were the work of a fringe Jewish sect, and shed light on the drafting of scripture around the time of Christianity's birth. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: February 13, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 13 11:24 PM

Here are the big stories today in photos Read more »

Archeologists rediscover WWII hero's memorial marker

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 13 05:03 PM

Archeologist Nikki Vesagas brushes the recently rediscovered memorial marker of Maria Orosa during the 75th anniversary commemoration of the bombing of Remedios Hospital on Thursday at the Malate Catholic School compound in Manila Read more »

From the mouths of babes: bottles that weaned prehistoric infants

Sara Hussein, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 26 10:54 AM

TOKYO, Japan – Archaeologists have uncovered the first evidence that our prehistoric ancestors in Europe weaned their infants much the way we do now, using specialized baby bottles to feed them animal milk. Read more »

Cagayan, nais maideklarang cultural property of the Philippines ang Callao Cave

Darlene Gemino Ballad, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 11 08:32 PM

Sa Callao Cave natagpuan ang ilang mga buto at ngipin ng isa sa mga sinaunang tao sa mundo na tinatawag na Homo luzonensis. Read more »

An ancient human species is discovered in a Philippine cave

Carl Zimmer, The New York Times
Updated as of Apr 11 06:30 PM

In a cave in the Philippines, scientists have discovered a new branch of the human family tree. Read more »

Fossils of enigmatic extinct human species found in Callao Cave

Reuters
Posted at Apr 11 05:59 AM

WASHINGTON - Thirteen fossil bones and teeth excavated in a cave in the Philippines represent an enigmatic previously unknown human species, probably small in stature and possessing an unexpected mix of archaic and modern traits, scientists said on Wednesday. Read more »

Tyrannosaurus rex found in Canada is world's biggest

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 23 06:25 PM

The towering Tyrannosaurus rex discovered in western Canada in 1991 is the world's biggest, a team of paleontologists said Friday, following a decades-long process of reconstructing its skeleton. Read more »

Still at large: 'Kalinga toolmaker' who butchered rhino 709,000 years ago

Patrick Quintos, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 10 08:46 PM

Archaeologists found 709,000-year-old bones of an extinct rhino species in Rizal in Kalinga, bearing butcher marks left by human tools. But the remains of early humans who lived during that time in the Philippines remain unseen.  Read more »

Early humans in the Philippines 700,000 years ago: study

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of May 03 04:30 PM

Were the early humans roaming east Asia more than half-a-million years ago clever enough to build sea-faring watercraft and curious enough to cross a vast expanse of open sea?  Read more »

'Void' discovered inside Great Pyramid: scientists

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 03 12:18 AM

A passenger plane-sized "void" has been discovered in the middle of the Great Pyramid of Egypt, where it has lain secret and untouched for 4,500 years, scientists revealed on Thursday. Read more »