Endurance, which sank in the Weddell sea after being tapped and then crushed by ice, hasn’t been seen in over 100…
The practice was likely an attempt to “reconstruct” the dead.
The metal straws were used to drink from communal vessels during banquets, according to a new study.
Far from the hulking beasts shown in modern depictions, the horses used in Medieval battles were more like ponies.
The Wari Empire ruled the South American highlands for centuries with help from hallucinogenic parties, new evidence…
Archaeologists found a variety of worm eggs in a cesspit under an Iron Age estate, showing that even elites suffered…
Human and dog remains at Çeşme-Bağlararası are the latest evidence of the Thera eruption and the ensuing tsunami…
The face of Amenhotep I hadn’t been seen for 3,000 years... until now.
A pregnant mummy, a frozen time capsule, a Pompeii snack bar, and a lost Egyptian city make our annual list.
An ancient anthropogenic footprint, brought about by hunting, tool production, fire use, and other behaviors, has…
Researchers found sheep DNA at the bottom of a Faroese lake that dates to several hundred years before the Viking…
The baby girl was buried with dozens of beads and the talon of an eagle owl.
The skeleton was found among dozens of others buried at the site of a former Roman-era village.
Woven textiles from an archaeological site in Turkey weren’t made from wool or linen as suspected, but from…
The chance discovery is the most complete of its kind.
30,000-year-old stone tools found in a Mexican cave aren’t actually stone tools, argues a group of archaeologists.
Fragments belonging to a remarkable hexagonal glass Roman jug were also uncovered.
An analysis of red paint on a Peruvian mask turned up some interesting additives, including human blood proteins.
The Tarim Basin mummies are immaculately preserved, well-dressed, and buried in boats. Now scientists have analyzed…
A sweeping survey of ancient settlements offers new clues to pre-Columbian life in Mexico.