The earliest evidence of mercury poisoning has been found in 5,000-year-old bones of humans buried in Spain and Portugal, according to a new study. Exposure to the naturally occurring heavy metal may have toxic effects on the body including on the nervous, digestive, and immune systems, according to The World Health Organization (WHO). […]
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This 5,000-year-old man had the earliest known strain of plague
The oldest pressure of Yersinia pestis–the bacteria powering the plague that induced the Black Death, which may have killed as considerably as fifty percent of Europe’s populace in the 1300s–has been uncovered in the remains of a 5,000-12 months-old hunter-gatherer. A genetic investigation publishing June 29 in the journal Cell […]
Bristol leads archaeologists on 5,000-year-old egg hunt
IMAGE: This is a figure showing areas of study. view more Credit: © Tamar Hodos, University of Bristol An international team of specialists, led by the University of Bristol, is closer to cracking a 5,000-year-old mystery surrounding the ancient trade and production of decorated ostrich eggs. Long before Fabergé, ornate ostrich […]