Archaeologists excavating a site in Mexico have discovered a temple dedicated to Xipe Tótec, an Aztec deity associated…
Archaeologists dug up a lot of cool stuff in 2018, but they dug up a lot of weird, disgusting, and disturbing stuff as…
The 1,500-year-old Pumapunku temple in western Bolivia is considered a crowning achievement of Andean architecture, yet…
He was somewhere between the age of 17 and 25 when he died, apparently of natural causes. But for reasons that are…
It’s a huge day for archaeologists and anyone interested in the history of America’s first settlers. Findings from…
Vikings acquired the capacity to produce tar at an industrial scale as early as the 8th century AD, according to new…
Archaeologists have discovered two previously unknown forms of spearpoint technology at a site in Texas. The triangular…
A recovery team working at the site of Brazil’s burnt-out National Museum in Rio de Janeiro have rescued several pieces…
The first farmers to arrive in Europe from the Middle East brought their dogs along with them, effectively wiping out…
Using ground-penetrating radar, archaeologists in Norway have discovered an ancient Viking ship buried just 20 inches…
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Using an airborne laser mapping technique called lidar, an international team of archaeologists has uncovered an…
In October 2017, a pair of treasure-hunting metal detectorists made an extraordinary discovery near a Swiss lake: a…
When it comes to figuring out which individual among a group of primates is the most dominant, some scientists simply…
An analysis of butchered animal bones suggests humans had somehow ventured to Madagascar by at least 10,000 years ago,…
Some 73,000 years ago in what is now South Africa, an early human used a red ochre crayon to draw a cross-hatched…
Back in July, Egyptian archaeologists dared to open a strange granite sarcophagus, finding three skeletons soaking in…
Archaeologists in Kenya have discovered a 5,000-year-old cemetery containing at least 580 bodies. Built by Africa’s…
The earliest mummies are typically associated with the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt, but as an intensive examination of…
The indigenous people of Easter Island, the Rapa Nui, experienced a societal collapse after the 17th century because…
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