A massive hammer designed to deliver incredible force is brought down onto one of the hardest materials on Earth - a diamond. The team carefully positions the stone beneath the hammer to see if pure ...

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Since 1924, the Winter Olympics presented curling, a prehistoric game created in Scotland in the early 16th century. Relative to bowls and shuffleboard, curling consists of two teams, taking turns ...

A prehistoric mass grave in Serbia reveals that more than 77 people—mostly women and children—were deliberately killed in a brutal act of violence about 2,800 years ago. Genetic evidence suggests the ...

An ancient elephant bone hammer from southern England reveals that early humans used rare materials to precisely sharpen stone tools, highlighting unexpected technological sophistication 500,000 years ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations ...

The earliest mass graves in Europe date back just over 7,000 years. They reveal brutal evidence for violence beyond the simple act of killing. The motives for these events are probably diverse but ...

Team USA women's curling entered Thursday with a simple task: Win, and you're in. With a victory over Switzerland, the United States would guarantee itself a spot in the playoffs. In the end, it ...

A 2,800-year-old mass grave in Serbia reveals a chilling pattern: women and children deliberately targeted, most unrelated to one another, and buried in a ritualized ceremony.

New research has revealed that women and children were deliberately targeted in one of the largest prehistoric mass killings discovered in Europe. Archaeological investigations at the Gomolava burial ...