The mysterious tunnel, found near Mexico City, made headlines in 2019, but now pandemic cutbacks mean it can't be…
Archaeology
Ongoing research has given us a more nuanced portrait of our extinct relatives, barrel chests and all.
Dubbed "Tollund Man," the natural mummy offers a window into what life was like in Europe 2,400 years ago.
The sonar discovery affirms a substantial Roman presence in the area of modern Venice.
The rare bone carving was unearthed at a cave entrance in northern Germany.
The 109-year-old shipwreck is increasingly giving way to the elements at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Measuring 21 inches long, the 4,400-year-old snake was carved from a single piece of wood.
The mutilated skeleton, found in Japan, now represents the oldest shark attack on record.
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The skull, hidden in a well for 85 years, only recently fell into the hands of scientists.
Researchers say the hominin has traits similar to both Neanderthals and modern humans.
Fashionable shoes called poulaines caused some gnarly foot problems, visible on skeletons from the time.
For the Māori people of New Zealand, this is old news.
A 35,000-year-old bear skull found in a Russian cave hints at a ritual killing.
Melting glacial ice along a mountain passageway in Norway has resulted in the discovery of hundreds of ancient…
The Toba super-eruption of some 74,000 years ago has long intrigued scientists, who remain uncertain about how the…
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Hundreds of Mexican National Guard and police have raided and seized an apparently illegal building project that…
A private building project threatens to destroy at least 25 ancient structures near the historic Teotihuacán ruins,…
Archaeologists working at a cave site near Rome have found the mineralized remains of nine Neanderthals, in what’s…
Angkor, in what is now Cambodia, was one of the most populated cities in the world from the 9th to 15th centuries CE.…
A genetic and genealogical analysis has allowed a team of archaeologists to identify the skeletal remains of a…