Lazy Bones

This is the oldest known musical instrument. A Palaeolithic flute from Hohle Fels cave in southern Germany created from the wing bone of a Griffon vulture over 35,000 years ago [686x457]

Bronze Age Love Story

A double grave dating to 3,000-years-ago was found near Petrykiv village in western Ukraine. The grave contains the remains of a man and woman, both members of the Bronze Age Vysotskaya (Wysocko) culture. It is believed the woman may have chosen to die. Autopsy experts have stated that it would have been impossible to place the woman in such a position had she already been dead. This has lead researchers to believe that she willingly climbed into the grave to embrace her assumed lover.

A tiny gold book of psalms believed to have belonged to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife. Anne supposedly handed this miniature book to one of her maids of honour when on the scaffold for her execution in 1536. The book measures just 4cm by 3cm[1500x1024]

A new skeleton discovered in the submerged caves at Tulum sheds new light on the earliest settlers of Mexico, according to a study published February 5, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Wolfgang Stinnesbeck from Universität Heidelberg, Germany.

Humans have been living in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula since at least the Late Pleistocene (126,000-11,700 years ago). Much of what we know about these earliest settlers of Mexico comes from nine well-preserved human skeletons found in the submerged caves and sinkholes near Tulum in Quintana Roo, Mexico.

Symptoms of atherosclerosis, or hardening and narrowing of the arteries, have been detected in the mummified remains of four Inuit adults who lived in Greenland about 500 years ago. The recent study used computerized tomography to examine the bodies of the two men, who are thought to have been between 18 and 22 and 25 and 30 at the time of death, and two women, who died sometime between the ages of 16 and 18 and 25 and 30, and one infant. Three of the four adults showed evidence of arterial calcification. Increased gunk in arteries can lead to life-threatening conditions such as strokes and heart attacks.