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An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years. Using sterilized scalpels and two layers ...

For the first time, scientists have shown that ancient human DNA can survive for thousands of years on cave walls, opening new ways to study prehistoric human activity. This interdisciplinary study ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Israel Antiquities Authority An excavated cave near Haifa, Israel, may offer archaeologists an unusually direct ...

Archaeologist Hesham Hussein of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities has surveyed rock art in the Sinai Peninsula for more than 25 years. Nevertheless, he was utterly unprepared for his team’s ...

Rescuers pulled four people from a flooded cave in Laos on Saturday, Thai volunteer rescuers said, hours after another man was brought out late on Friday. The five are among seven Lao nationals who ...

An international effort to free the trapped men brought attention to the country’s informal mines, where panning for gold can pay more than minimum wage. By Francesca Regalado and Muktita Suhartono ...

May 27 (UPI) --Five of seven men trapped in a cave in a remote area of Laos for more than a week were found alive on Wednesday following an international rescue operation involving more than 100 ...

The search for the remaining bodies of the Italian divers who perished inside a deep underwater cave in the Maldives continued Tuesday, as officials described the recovery mission as "very challenging ...

The bodies of two of the four remaining Italians who died in an underwater cave in the Maldives were recovered by divers on Tuesday, an official said, as efforts continue to retrieve the remains of ...