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It's the oldest example of systematic coal use in history.
Scientists X-rayed the sword, shedding new light on the ancient weapon and its potential owner.
The discovery challenges our understanding of women's involvement in warfare during the Iron Age.
Archaeologists are opening a new window into the past.
New research is unraveling the high-climbing habits and rope technologies of ancient Spanish Levantine societies.
This type of sanctuary may have been more common than we thought.
Skeleton discovered in a tomb had been wrongly identified as a man.
London has plenty of attractions. Now, you can add another one to the list.
Could Neanderthals have been the first artists?
It still looks amazing!
Ancient engineers had their work cut out for themselves.
The findings may explain why Greece has been a hotbed for human civilization.
Archaeologists were puzzled by the mysterious ruins. But then, they found a "smoking gun."
Bridging the past and the future, ultraviolet light exposes a long-lost Biblical translation.
Mesopotamian clay tablets depict the earliest evidence of kissing.
It could have broad implications for understanding the origins of modern civilization
It looks so out of place and we have so many questions.
How did human DNA end up in a deer tooth pendant?
It's more than a history mystery. This might pave the way to creating new construction materials.
The fortified camps were likely staging areas for an undocumented military campaign against an ancient kingdom in modern-day Jordan.
Ancient proteins trapped in dental calculus reveal how people conquered the rough Tibetan hinterlands.
In 2022 we detailed the discovery of 1,500 stone points in France’s Madrin cave. Experiments now show that they could were used as arrowheads, pushing back evidence of archery in Eurasia by 40,000 years.
There are surprising similarities to the tools made by humans.
It's a very dangerous procedure.
In AD 79, a baker prepared a loaf in the Roman city of Pompeii.
We're starting to find more traces of Denisovan-human interbreeding.
Bronze Age people used long straws to share beer from the same vessel.
This kind of thing doesn't happen very often, so archaeologists dealt with it carefully.
This 11,000 year-old scene is quite the artistic roller coaster.
The discovery of forgotten photos is helping archaeologists piece together prehistoric burial practices.
The Stone Age tool manufacturing workshop produced standardized handaxes, showing our earliest ancestors were much more forward thinking than we might have thought.
Mixing drones, magnetometers, and "surgical" digging, archaeologists are looking at the past in new ways.
Love is beyond life and death, this ancient letter proves it.
It's a huge discovery that could help decipher one of the greatest mysteries in archaeology.
Nineveh was one of the most remarkable urban centers in ancient Mesopotamia.
After countless hours of study, the furniture conservator found hunter-gathers used dots and dashes to record the reproductive cycles of animals.
It’s one of the longest running disputes in the global museum sector. Could this be a start for museum decolonization?
Neanderthals may have opened up forests using fire and cutting tools much earlier than modern humans have.
New laser method uncovers insights about prehistoric trade routes.
A glimpse into childhood behaviors in Copper Age societies.
A 17,000-year-old canine humerus is cementing the notion that man's best friend originates in Western Europe.
The story of a 'fake emperor' from a far-away province at the edge of the Roman Empire just got a lot more interesting.
Recreating long-faded smells from history to evoke the past is a new way to experience culture in museums and tours.
Early humans liked their fish well done.
Researchers may have discovered a new motif for tattoos.
A digitized tour lets you visit the thousands-year-old chambers from your living room.
It's the most significant find of its kind in Italy in the last half-century.
Finding organic material preserved in Finland's soils is exceedingly rare.
The study results verify biblical accounts of military campaigns against the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
Even as some questions are unclear, the replica is helping us understand a piece of this ancient time.
