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 From Smithsonian Magazine,  By-  Margaret Osborne  ( Daily Correspondent) Edited by - Amal Udawatta, One small variation in DNA may have helped Homo sapiens out-compete our ancient relatives Skull of a Neanderthal, or  Homo neanderthalensis   Geography Photos / Universal Images Group via Getty Images When the first  Homo sapiens  appeared on Earth around 300,000 years ago, they weren’t the only humans roaming the land. Our ancestors were  one of about nine early human species  alive at the time—and one of at least  21 human species  to ever exist, though the exact number is debated.  So why, scientists have asked, are  Homo sapiens  the only ones that are still here? After all, our relatives the Neanderthals had brains of a similar size to ours, yet they went extinct about 40,000 years ago.  “[Neanderthals] were in Europe a long time before us and would have been adapted to their environment, including pathogens. The big question is why we would be able to out-compete them,” Laurent N

  By Victoria Gill, Science correspondent, BBC News, Edited by Amal Udawatta, The earliest evidence ever of surgical amputation has been discovered in an Indonesian cave. Researchers found the buried 31,000-year-old body of a young person that shows evidence of leg amputation. The find pushes back the origin of this complicated surgery by more than 24,000 years. After the procedure the person was cared for by their ancient community for years until their death, archaeologists say. Dr Melandri Vlok, who examined the body, said it was "quite clear" surgery had been carried out. A detailed examination of the ancient body, details of which are published  in the journal Nature , took place when the person was a child. Growth and healing of their leg bone suggests they recovered and lived for another six to nine years, probably dying in their late teens or early twenties. The grave itself was excavated in a cave called Liang Tebo, in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, a place that

By - Amal Udawatta, Ramses II, was the third pharaoh of the XIX Dynasty of Egypt, who ruled for 66 years, from 1279 a. C. until 1213 a. C. he is often remembered as the greatest and most powerful pharaoh of the New Kingdom, which in turn is the peak period of Ancient Egypt. He was buried in a KV7 tomb in the Valley of the Kings near Thebes, but his body was later transferred to a royal mummy cache where it was discovered in 1881. His mummy has until recently been on display in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. and, from 2021, in the new Grand Egyptian Museum in the same city.

 From -BBC World News Edited by - Vinuri Randula Silva IMAGE SOURCE, G MAYER-MARTON ESTATE Image caption, The Crucifixion depicts the figure of Christ in tiles of gold against a dark blue cross, flanked by a painted Mary and John the Apostle A "one-of-a-kind" church mural which survived being painted over has been granted Grade II listed status. George Mayer-Marton's The Crucifixion was awarded the status after a  six-year campaign by Save Britain's Heritage . The mosaic and fresco in the Church of the Holy Rosary in Oldham was created by the artist after he fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Heritage Minister Nigel Huddleston said it was "an important reminder for future generations" of his plight. The work was created by the Hungarian-Jewish artist in 1955 and depicts the figure of Christ in tiles of gold against a dark blue cross, flanked by a painted Mary and John the Apostle. The fresco part of the work was painted over with off-white paint in t

ancient- giant-skeletons-of-a-human-and-a-snake-discovered-in-thailand-or-is-it-just-a-well-done- As the title suggests, this discovery came about during the excavations of the local Khao Khanap Nam Cave from Thailand. The skeleton here is clearly that of a Giant male as it is over 20 feet in height. Next to the body the team that made the discovery also spotted a huge serpent’s remains too. This was first reported by the KBTV news channel which stated that in the Krabi region multiple other archaeological discoveries were made, including the world’s first primate known as Simaopithecus Eocaeunus.