Ice Age Kids Sported Cheek Piercings, 29,000-Year-Old Teeth Suggest
Strange wear marks on the teeth of Paleolithic people in Central Europe have long puzzled scientists, but new research may ...
Flat patches on ancient Europeans' teeth reveal possible cheek piercing tradition
A biological anthropologist at the University of Coimbra in Portugal is hypothesizing that the mysterious flat patches found ...
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Ice age Europeans as young as 10 years old rocked cheek piercings 30,000 years ago
A study of Paleolithic skeletons from Central Europe suggests people's teeth were worn down and crowded together because of ...
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How this pristine 15th-century Hebrew Bible survived the Inquisition
For centuries, librarians at Portugal's University of Coimbra library hid Jewish texts from Catholic fanatics and censors. COIMBRA, Portugal (JTA) — From its mountaintop perch, the University of ...
Two new 300-million-year-old plant species discovered in Portugal
Researchers from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra (FCTUC) announced the discovery of a fossil in Anadia, in Portugal's Aveiro district, which corresponds to a new ...