archaeology

Kotelny Island sits high up in the Arctic, off the coast of Northern Siberia. It’s cold and barren now, mostly…

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…

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…

This story was produced in partnership with Atlas Obscura.

Unlike humans living today, our distant ancestors exerted a very small footprint on the planet, leaving barely…

Tomorrow marks the first day of fall 2019, though you’d be forgiven for not noticing in much of the country thanks…

President Donald Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border could destroy 22 archaeological sites in Arizona,…

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…

This was one heck of a week in the tech and science world. Ridesharing giant Uber finally launched its long-awaited…

It’s been a busy week for our friends at Facebook: Amid showing a bunch of loser far-right trolls and also Louis…

The archaeology world is abuzz today with news of the first Denisovan fossil found outside of Siberia. The…

Scientists have confirmed that a gunmetal disk uncovered off the coast of Oman is the oldest known mariner’s…

The remains of SM UC-61, a World War I German minelaying submarine (also known as a U-boat) is resurfacing on the…

Archaeologists dug up a lot of cool stuff in 2018, but they dug up a lot of weird, disgusting, and disturbing stuff…

Egyptian authorities are not very happy with a video taken by Danish photographer Andreas Hvid, who climbed what…

Long before the two deadliest pandemics in history—the Plague of Justinian and the Black Plague—an ancient strain of…

This year taught us more about distant planets and our own world, about the ways we’re influencing our environment…