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Category: Archaeology

Archaeologists Discover 70,000-Year-Old “Crayons” That Prove Neanderthals Were Artists Too

Archaeologists Discover 70,000-Year-Old “Crayons” That Prove Neanderthals Were Artists Too

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 30, 2025October 30, 2025

For centuries, Neanderthals were portrayed as primitive beings—strong but dim, survivors rather than thinkers. Yet, in recent years, that image…

Ancient Benin City Unearthed: Archaeologists Discover Secrets of a Lost African Empire Beneath Modern Nigeria

Ancient Benin City Unearthed: Archaeologists Discover Secrets of a Lost African Empire Beneath Modern Nigeria

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 30, 2025October 30, 2025

In the red earth of Benin City, Nigeria, archaeologists are carefully peeling back layers of history to reveal the powerful…

Ancient DNA Reveals the Forgotten Warriors Who Once Terrified Rome

Ancient DNA Reveals the Forgotten Warriors Who Once Terrified Rome

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 30, 2025October 30, 2025

In the windswept plains of Eastern Europe, long before the rise of medieval kingdoms or the spread of Christianity across…

45,000-Year-Old Bone Reveals Neanderthals Crossed Continents Before Vanishing

45,000-Year-Old Bone Reveals Neanderthals Crossed Continents Before Vanishing

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 29, 2025October 29, 2025

For decades, archaeologists have tried to reconstruct one of prehistory’s most consequential journeys — the eastward spread of Neanderthals from…

Ancient Maya Eclipse Math Finally Decoded — Scientists Stunned by Precision Without Telescopes

Ancient Maya Eclipse Math Finally Decoded — Scientists Stunned by Precision Without Telescopes

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 27, 2025October 27, 2025

The Maya Civilization is often remembered for its monumental temples and its mysterious societal collapse. But beneath the stones lay…

Napoleon’s Army Didn’t Die From Typhus After All — Ancient DNA Just Revealed a Different Killer

Napoleon’s Army Didn’t Die From Typhus After All — Ancient DNA Just Revealed a Different Killer

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 25, 2025October 26, 2025

In the summer of 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte crossed into Russia with an army so vast that it seemed to guarantee…

Archaeologists Unearth a Lost Scythian Tomb in Siberia—And Its Secrets Are Breathtaking

Archaeologists Unearth a Lost Scythian Tomb in Siberia—And Its Secrets Are Breathtaking

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 24, 2025October 26, 2025

Deep in the Uyuk River Valley of southern Siberia, where mountain winds sweep across vast steppes and silence hangs heavy…

Humans Changed Europe’s Landscape 100,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought

Humans Changed Europe’s Landscape 100,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 24, 2025October 26, 2025

Imagine Europe tens of thousands of years ago—a land cloaked in vast forests, where herds of elephants and bison thundered…

Stone Tools in U.S. Match 20,000-Year-Old Weapons from Japan — History Upended

Stone Tools in U.S. Match 20,000-Year-Old Weapons from Japan — History Upended

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 24, 2025October 26, 2025

For more than a century, the question of who first set foot in the Americas — and how they arrived…

They Thought It Was Just an Old Well — Then Archaeologists Found a Mass Grave of Roman Warriors

They Thought It Was Just an Old Well — Then Archaeologists Found a Mass Grave of Roman Warriors

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 23, 2025October 26, 2025

In the heart of modern-day Osijek, Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a haunting remnant of Rome’s turbulent past—an ancient water well…

Scientists Solved a 3,500-Year-Old Mystery Linking a Greek Volcano to the Pharaohs

Scientists Solved a 3,500-Year-Old Mystery Linking a Greek Volcano to the Pharaohs

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 23, 2025October 26, 2025

More than 3,500 years ago, the tranquil island of Thera—now known as Santorini—was shattered by one of the most powerful…

Archaeologists Uncover Massive Ancient “Power Pole” That Once Linked Heaven and Earth in Lost American City

Archaeologists Uncover Massive Ancient “Power Pole” That Once Linked Heaven and Earth in Lost American City

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 23, 2025October 26, 2025

Long before the rise of skyscrapers and concrete cities, in the green expanse of the Mississippi Valley, a civilization flourished…

Archaeologists Uncover a 5,000-Year-Old “Lost Ritual City” in Jordan That Rose After Civilization Collapsed

Archaeologists Uncover a 5,000-Year-Old “Lost Ritual City” in Jordan That Rose After Civilization Collapsed

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 17, 2025October 26, 2025

In the rugged highlands of Jordan, archaeologists have uncovered a landscape unlike any other—one that whispers the story of how…

For 3,000 Years We Blamed a Plague—Now Scientists Say Akhenaten’s City Died for a Very Different Reason

For 3,000 Years We Blamed a Plague—Now Scientists Say Akhenaten’s City Died for a Very Different Reason

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 17, 2025October 26, 2025

More than 3,300 years ago, Pharaoh Akhenaten—once known as Amenhotep IV—did something extraordinary. He turned his back on Egypt’s centuries-old…

Archaeologists Unearth Mysterious Roman Basin Older Than the Empire Itself

Archaeologists Unearth Mysterious Roman Basin Older Than the Empire Itself

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 17, 2025October 26, 2025

Just eleven miles east of Rome, where the rolling Italian hills cradle the ruins of forgotten empires, archaeologists have uncovered…

Scientists Discover a 1,200-Year-Old Maya Settlement Preserved Perfectly Underwater — Here’s What They Found

Scientists Discover a 1,200-Year-Old Maya Settlement Preserved Perfectly Underwater — Here’s What They Found

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 16, 2025October 26, 2025

Deep beneath the quiet waters of southern Belize’s Punta Ycacos Lagoon lies a secret the sea has kept for over…

Europe’s ‘Desert Kites’? Scientists Uncover Enormous Stone Traps Older Than Bronze Age

Europe’s ‘Desert Kites’? Scientists Uncover Enormous Stone Traps Older Than Bronze Age

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 16, 2025October 26, 2025

On the rugged borderland between Slovenia and Italy, a remarkable secret has been lying silent for thousands of years. The…

Early Humans on Two Continents Had the Same Idea—But Never Met

Early Humans on Two Continents Had the Same Idea—But Never Met

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 15, 2025October 26, 2025

Around 42,000 years ago, as early modern humans spread across Europe and the Near East, they faced the same challenge—how…

Scientists Decode 6,000-Year-Old “Chewing Gum” — and It Reveals Secrets of Ancient Life

Scientists Decode 6,000-Year-Old “Chewing Gum” — and It Reveals Secrets of Ancient Life

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 15, 2025October 26, 2025

For centuries, archaeologists have pieced together humanity’s distant past through the fragments left behind—bones, tools, pottery, and ancient texts. Yet,…

Ancient Roman Concrete Secrets Revived to Save China’s Crumbling Grottoes

Ancient Roman Concrete Secrets Revived to Save China’s Crumbling Grottoes

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 11, 2025October 11, 2025

Carved into mountainsides, hidden in valleys, and brushed by centuries of wind and rain, China’s ancient grotto temples are more…

Archaeologists Uncover 900-Year-Old Child Skeleton with Mysterious Rare Disease That Still Baffles Scientists

Archaeologists Uncover 900-Year-Old Child Skeleton with Mysterious Rare Disease That Still Baffles Scientists

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 10, 2025October 10, 2025

Nearly a millennium ago, in what is now southwestern Türkiye, a young child was laid to rest beneath the earth…

Ancient DNA Reveals China’s First Patrilineal Society — and It’s 4,000 Years Older Than Anyone Thought

Ancient DNA Reveals China’s First Patrilineal Society — and It’s 4,000 Years Older Than Anyone Thought

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 10, 2025October 10, 2025

In the quiet soil of central China, beneath layers of earth that have kept secrets for millennia, scientists have uncovered…

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