One ingredient that I love to work with when making sweet treats is marshmallows. Without marshmallows, we wouldn’t have some of our favorites like Rice Krispie bars, rocky road anything, or classic s’mores. Can you even imagine? If you love marshmallows as much as I do, here are 25 marshmallow …

I love no-bake recipes which only require a few ingredients. Sometimes I just don’t have the time to spend in the kitchen for anything more complicated. These Peanut Butter Cookie Balls made by Kari Stroschein are surprisingly easy and can be made with only three ingredients!  According to Kari, every time she makes …

Early Homo sapiens arrived in South America earlier than believed, new research shows. Sample of stone tools (scrapers, flakes and bipolar cobble) found at the Arroyo Seco 2 site. Image credit: G.G. Politis et al. The conclusion comes from the analysis of ancient tools and bones from a variety of …

Archaeologists excavating at the site of the ancient Biblical city of Tel Lachish have unearthed a gate-shrine dating to the 8th century BC (First Temple period). Lachish gate-shrine. Image credit: Guy Fitoussi / Israel Antiquities Authority. The ancient gate-shrine is about 80 x 80 feet (24.5 x 24.5 m), making …

An international team of researchers led by Lund University archaeologists has virtually reconstructed a large house of the Pompeian banker Lucius Caecilius Iucundus. A research paper about the virtual reconstruction is published in the journal SCIRES-IT. Peristylium (open courtyard) of the House of Caecilius Iucundus. Image credit: Emanuel Demetrescu et …

Early humans living in southern Africa in the Middle Stone Age after 65,000 years ago used advanced heating techniques to produce silcrete blades, according to a new study. This image shows heated silcrete artifacts made by Middle Stone Age humans at Klipdrift Shelter, South Africa. Image credit: Katja Douze / …

According to a new study, Stone Age humans may have hunted Eurasian cave lions (Panthera leo spelaea) for their pelts, perhaps contributing to their extinction. Cave lion (Panthera leo spelaea) by Heinrich Harder, 1920. The Eurasian cave lion is an extinct subspecies of lion that lived on the Eurasian continent …

Archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered a papyrus fragment that includes the earliest reference to Jerusalem in an extra-Biblical document, written in ancient Hebrew script and dating to the time of the First Temple (seventh century BC). This papyrus, found in one of the Judean Desert caves, …

Nan Madol, an ancient administrative and the former capital of the Micronesian island of Pohnpei, was the earliest among the Pacific islands to be ruled by a single chief, according to an international team of archaeologists. Nan Madol ruins on the island of Pohnpei. Image credit: C.T. Snow / CC …

Archaeological excavations at Abydos, Egypt, have revealed the remains of a subterranean boat burial dating to the reign of the pharaoh Senwosret III (c. 1850 BC), says an international team of archaeologists led by Dr. Josef Wegner of the Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania. Top: interior of the boat building. …