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Neanderthal Hand Found in a Spanish Cave Still Holds Its DNA After 46,000 Years

19 October 2026 at 17:35
Neanderthals left plenty of traces in the western Pyrenees, the mountain range that separates Spain from France. Stone tools, butchered animal bones, the leftovers of their camps. What nobody had ever found in Navarre, the region of northern Spain whose capital is Pamplona, was a single bone of the people themselves. On Monday that changed, […]

Malta’s Mysterious 31 Miles of β€œRailway Tracks” in Solid Rock May Be Roman, Not Prehistoric

19 October 2026 at 15:28
On a patch of bare rock in western Malta, roughly 80 by 100 metres (260 by 330 feet), dozens of parallel grooves cross, overlap and merge into one another. The spot, MisraΔ§ GΔ§ar il-Kbir, is popularly known as Clapham Junction, after the busy railway junction in London. It is far from the only place like […]

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