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LiveScience reports on the second Mayan text ever discovered that refers to the famous end of the Mayan calendar. They didn’t think the world was going to end then – just that… Read the rest “New Mayan text: Party like it’s 2012.”

Guardian sheds new light on our so-called primitive cousins, the Neanderthals, by looking at the the oldest cave paintings ever found:

Now comes what could be the final nail in the coffin

BBC gets into some *really* vintage sound, grooving with the world’s oldest flutes:

The flutes, made from bird bone and mammoth ivory, come from a cave in southern Germany which contains

Discover gets some of that OLD time Texas religion, decoding who, what and how the White Shaman of the Rio Grande really worshipped:

The land is barbed with cacti, teeming with rattlesnakes,

LiveScience unearths a scientific controversy over what seems to be a plague victim’s corpse defaced by vampire hunters:

The controversy begins with a mass grave of 16th-century

They lived in the Republic of Georgia, says Eurasianet.org, where scientists have just found 5,500-year-old honeypots:

The honey stains found in the ceramic vessels, found 170 kilometers

And yes, it’s what you expect. LiveScience reports on the giant penis that’s redefining world history:

The time frame during which humans first reached the Americas remains

The Independent goes way back, digging up the history of the diva of the pharaohs:

It is the only tomb of a woman not related to the ancient Egyptian royal families ever found there, said Mansour

Discovery savors the very faint aroma of a 1,300-year-old Mayan tobacco flask – the first physical evidence that Mayans used super-strong tobacco:

None of the nicotine by-products

Next thing you know, they’re going to be showing up in our back yards. But Past Horizons says the last Neanderthals were about 8,000 years younger than we thought:

Remains found near

Past Horizons may have revealed the secret origins of man’s best friend – among the domesticated wolves of Southeast Asia:

Data on genetics, morphology and behaviour show

The Telegraph finds the truth behind a navigational legend – a stone that Vikings used locate the sun on cloudy days:

Now experiments have shown that a crystal, called an Iceland spar,