World's Oldest

A new DNA discovery reveals a previously unknown lineage of mammoth

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Million-year-old mammoth DNA smashes record for world’s oldest

A new study published in the journal Nature is describing the extraction and sequencing of the oldest known sample of DNA. The sample comes from an ancient species of mammoth found in the Siberian permafrost and dates back nearly 1.2 million years.

Dated more than 45,000 years ago, this cave painting found in Indonesia is the oldest known artwork depicting a reco

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World's oldest known figurative artwork found in Indonesian cave

Archaeologists have discovered what they claim to be the oldest example of figurative art made by human hands. An ochre painting of pigs, found on a cave wall in Indonesia, has been dated to be at least 45,500 years old.

The shipwreck is located at a depth of over 2 km (1.2 miles)

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Ancient Greek vessel found in Black Sea is world's oldest intact shipwreck

For three years, an international team of scientists surveyed the floor of the Black Sea, off the coast of Bulgaria. Now, radiocarbon tests have confirmed that the remains of an ancient ship discovered last year date from 400BC, officially making it the world's oldest known intact shipwreck.

A diagram showing how the pits are aligned and how they track the phases of the moon

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World's oldest calendar uncovered in a Scottish field

A crude but working calendar found in Warren Field, Scotland, is turning back time. Scientists believe the calendar was created by hunter gatherers around 8,000 BC, making it the world's oldest calendar discovered to date by a significant margin.