Archaeology
George Washington’s Bottled Cherry Stash Unearthed
What did George Washington squirrel away under the floorboards...
Stone Age Women Buried Alive in Ritual Murders
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of several ritual Stone...
Ancient Greek Gladiator-Style Helmet Unearthed in Croatia
Burial mounds in coastal Croatia could help rewrite the...
Amazons: The Reality Behind the Myth of Warrior Women
Many Greek legends tell of warrior women known as...
The Oldest Canoes in the Mediterranean Show Astonishing Stone-Age Skill
Five canoes found at the bottom of an Italian...
3,000-Year-Old Bronze-Age Discovery Called the British Pompeii
When a fire broke out in a 3,000-year-old village...
Inside a Powerful Ancient Man’s Tomb: Dozens of Human Sacrifices
A newly discovered tomb in Panama contains a fortune...
Magnet Fisherman Hauls Rare Viking Sword From English River
Any angler will tell you, you never know what...
Slightly Stale: Turkish Loaf Ranks Among World’s Oldest Bread
Ever eat day-old bread? Try 3,147,760-day-old bread.
That's what food...
Our Lost Human Ancestors, Closer to Us Than Neanderthals
When archaeologists recovered a human finger bone fragment from...
Paleo Cosplay? Archaeologist Tests Homemade Neolithic Gear in Scandinavia
Experimental archaeologist Markus Klek is having a blast walking...
1,800 Years Later, Ancient Greek Druggist’s Pharmacopoeia Won’t Die
There’s something to be said for traditional medicine. And...
Unraveling the Most Mysterious Section of the Great Wall of China
The Mongolian Arc is a little-known section of the...
First Kiss: Smooching Began 1,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
Leave it to a couple of doctoral candidates on...
Neanderthals Used Glue to Make Tools
Artifacts have recently revealed that Neanderthals used glue to...
Violence, Disease Killed Almost Everyone in Denmark — Twice
Late neolithic Denmark was a tough place to live...
Controversy Persists in Troubled Tomb of Alexander the Great’s Father
One tomb containing a who’s who of fourth-century Macedonian...
Underwater Stone-Age Wall Once Trapped Reindeer
For Holocene hunters in Germany, reindeer were a big...
Mysterious Easter Island Glyphs Suggest a One-of-a-Kind Language
If you thought the rongorongo language was younger than...
Scroll Buried By Vesuvius Finally Deciphered
Three student researchers have won three-quarters of a million...
Bones in German Cave Rewrite History of Homo Sapiens
Bone fragments found in a German cave reveal that...