Earth’s ice is melting at a rapid clip today. But some scientists think that during several ancient episodes, the planet plunged into a deep freeze known as “Snowball Earth,” when ice sheets grew to cover almost the entire planet.
Everything we are told about ancient history is wrong: civilisation didn’t start in Sumeria and Egypt around 3,500 BC; it began 10,000 years before in great cities which subsequently suffered a cataclysm. An entire episode in the human story was rubbed out, a chapter not of unsophisticated hunter gatherers but of advanced technology.
Scientists endured bitter winds to retrieve ancient ice from a blue ice field in the Allan Hills of Antarctica.
Newly uncovered skulls in China have both human and Neanderthal features, a mix that so far hasn’t been seen in a hominid fossil.
For most of the last ice age, enormous glaciers covered western Canada. And yet people still managed to cross deep into the Americas from their settlements in western Alaska. How did they do it?
A study of DNA from ancient human bones has helped unlock the secrets of Europe’s Ice Age inhabitants.
Humanity could have ended up very different if our ancestors didn’t meet.
Lasers from space gives us a better view on earth’s Ice age movements.
As if thousands of years ago, an unknown civilization undertook a global-scale project of mapping te entire planet like no one has ever done before.
