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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.
These could be the legacy of Turkic tribes moving through the area.
Any engineer today would be proud of them.
The urban settlement didn’t have a city center or a surrounding defensive wall, but it had an interesting peculiarity.
This valuable piece of local history was discovered by chance under a former department store
Gilding techniques were incredibly well developed in the Middle Ages.
The arrow, which shows impressive craftsmanship, dates from the 6th century BC, two hundred years before the Vikings emerged.
The work of art is beautifully preserved and shows great craftsmanship.
Scientists originally thought she was male, but a fresh look has revealed some surprises.
The damage caused by firewood harvesters hasn't healed even today.
Humans and opium have a long history together.
This is a "once-in-a-lifetime" event.
What was living like for the Mayans?
The tooth is almost two million years old.
Neolithic porridge, anyone?
The remarkable Stone Age operation was made on a child who survived and years later grew into adulthood.
This Chinese statue seems to have been repaired several times over the centuries.
Since the early 1980s, scientists have found more than a staggering 14,000 artifacts at the 3,000-year-old archaeological site of Sanxingdui in southwest China. And this site, known for sacrificial pits, is the gift that keeps on giving. Chinese scientists now report the discovery of a large bronze statue found at Sanxingdui’s Number 8 sacrificial pit, […]
The area around Românești seems to have been an important stone-age projectile manufacturing site.
The life of a medieval friar was tough.
Metal-making practices described in a 2300-year-old text are more sophisticated than anyone realized.
