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5,000-Year-Old Mass Grave Reveals Brutal Bronze Age Family Massacre in Poland

March 19, 2026

5,000-Year-Old Mass Grave Reveals Brutal Bronze Age Family Massacre in Poland Despite the fact that all 15 people discovered in a Bronze Age mass grave in southern Poland were killed by a head blow, their bodies were buried together with…

50,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Gut Microbiome Reveals Ancestral Links to Modern Health

March 17, 2022

50,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Gut Microbiome Reveals Ancestral Links to Modern Health Neanderthals’ gut microbiota already included some beneficial micro-organisms that are also found in our own intestine. An international research group led by the University of Bologna achieved this result by…