Archaeology

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…

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…

A group of archaeologists has found the oldest deliberate burial of a modern human ever discovered in Africa, dating…

A radiological examination of a 2,000-year-old mummy presumed to be a male priest shows it’s actually the preserved…

Hoping to find a local dolphin named Kevin, a citizen archaeologist ended up finding a medieval logboat sunk in the…

The site of a 19th-century cabin belonging to the family of Harriet Tubman has been uncovered in Maryland. It’s a…

The fossilized shoulder joint of an early hominin named “Little Foot” suggests the upright-walking species was also…

Paleoanthropologists have discovered more than 80 fossilized footprints in Southern Spain, on an uneven span of rock…

An expedition working near Luxor has stumbled upon the remains of a lost ancient Egyptian city, in what is being…

Humans can be distinguished from other apes in many ways, such as our general hairlessness, our upright bipedalism,…

A genome sequenced from a modern human skull has been dated at approximately 45,000 years old, making it the oldest…

The main section of the USS Johnston—sunk 77 years ago during the Battle of Leyte Gulf—has been discovered off the…