The Tetney Golf Club in Lincolnshire concealed a 4,000-year-old secret.
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.
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 group of archaeologists has found the oldest deliberate burial of a modern human ever discovered in Africa, dating…
A genome sequenced from a modern human skull has been dated at approximately 45,000 years old, making it the oldest…
Dozens of savagely murdered individuals found buried in a Copper Age mass grave is shedding new light onto the lives…
Archaeologists may have finally figured out how a 5,300-year-old skull ended up on the ledge of a deep vertical cave…
Archaeology is the closest thing we have to a time machine. Instead of using flux capacitors, however,…
Three executives from the mining company that detonated a 46,000-year-old Indigenous Australian heritage site to…
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A 1,000-year-old recipe to treat eye infections could lead to an unorthodox way of combating antibiotic resistance.
Facebook has finally said it would now prohibit the sale of all historical artifacts due to rampant black market…
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Tomorrow marks the first day of fall 2019, though you’d be forgiven for not noticing in much of the country thanks…
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President Donald Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border could destroy 22 archaeological sites in Arizona,…
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Archaeologists have spotted an 8,000-year-old wooden platform in the waters off southern Great Britain.
July 20, 2019 is the 50th anniversary of the date when Apollo 11 crewmembers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became…
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This was one heck of a week in the tech and science world. Ridesharing giant Uber finally launched its long-awaited…
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