The Neanderthal Flute, found in the cave of Divje Babe in Slovenia, is thought to date back at least 50,000 years, making it the oldest known musical instrument in the world.. It was discovered by ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal flute that offers the oldest known glimpse into prehistoric music. This discovery challenges ideas about Neanderthal culture and creativity.

A new analysis of ancient genomes is deepening scientists’ understanding of the Neanderthal DNA carried by human populations in Europe and Asia — genetic traces that may have medical relevance ...

Taken together, this work almost doubles the number of Neanderthal genomes that have been described. It also gives a tantalising glimpse into Neanderthal social lives.

Neanderthal Genes Are Linked to Severe Covid Risk. Study in Italy’s worst pandemic hot spot sheds light on why some people fell seriously ill and others didn’t. By . Margherita Stancati.

Many experts believe an approximately 45,000-year-old bear femur could be a flute — the oldest known musical instrument. Ivan Turk discovered the bone in 1995 in Slovenia’s Divje Babe Archaeological ...

One paper, in Science, looks at 334 sapiens genomes, 275 from the present and the rest between 2,200 and 45,000 years old. All show Neanderthal DNA getting into sapiens genomes over an extended ...

Mining Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA for new antibiotics : Short Wave Antibiotics have changed the world. They've made it possible to treat diseases that used to mean anything from discomfort to ...

Most of this Neanderthal DNA arrived in a 7,000-year period about 47,000 years ago, after modern humans came out of Africa into Europe, and before Neanderthals became extinct about 30,000 years ago.

Playing James Madison’s 2-century-old crystal flute last week earned Lizzo praise, criticism and, most recently, an invitation to tour the Founding Father’s Montpelier, Va., home. The team ...