Steelers select a QB 500 Million-Year-Old Human Footprint Fossil Baffles Scientists Pistons pull off unprecedented turnaround, becoming 1st NBA team to triple wins from previous season ...

An initial partial exhumation allowed the team to radiocarbon date a shard of his ribs, and that analysis indicated that the man had lived 800 years ago—right at the time the bioweapon attack of ...

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BOOKS on healthy living date back at least 800 years — and include warnings about eating eels with cheese. Doctors in the 13th century also gave exercise and sleep advice, a researcher has found.

Eight hundred years ago, an Ethiopian king ordered a new capital for Christians. At 8,000 feet, on the central plateau of Ethiopia, stand 11 churches, each carved from a single, gigantic ...

but the genome of the Well-man showed the genetic drift already existed 800 years ago. The radiocarbon dating of the man’s bones—specifically, ratios of carbon and nitrogen isotopes in the ...