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Category: Archaeology

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…

Archaeologists Uncover 400,000-Year-Old “Elephant Feast” Site Near Rome — And It’s Changing What We Know About Early Humans

Archaeologists Uncover 400,000-Year-Old “Elephant Feast” Site Near Rome — And It’s Changing What We Know About Early Humans

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 9, 2025October 10, 2025

Four hundred thousand years ago, long before the rise of cities, art, or written language, the Italian landscape looked very…

Scientists Discover 1,000-Year-Old Gut Bacteria Preserved in Ancient Mexican Mummy

Scientists Discover 1,000-Year-Old Gut Bacteria Preserved in Ancient Mexican Mummy

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 9, 2025October 10, 2025

A thousand years ago, in the rugged mountains of Zimapán, Mexico, a man lived, walked, hunted, and dreamed — unaware…

Scientists Finally Solve the Easter Island Mystery — The Moai Didn’t Roll, They Walked!

Scientists Finally Solve the Easter Island Mystery — The Moai Didn’t Roll, They Walked!

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 8, 2025October 10, 2025

Far out in the Pacific Ocean, on one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world, nearly a thousand…

Archaeologists Uncovered How the World’s First Villagers Welcomed Strangers 10,000 Years Ago

Archaeologists Uncovered How the World’s First Villagers Welcomed Strangers 10,000 Years Ago

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 7, 2025October 10, 2025

Long before the rise of cities or written language, small bands of humans began to settle down. They planted seeds,…

These 4,000-Year-Old Bones Reveal a Shocking Secret About Humanity’s Earliest Caregivers

These 4,000-Year-Old Bones Reveal a Shocking Secret About Humanity’s Earliest Caregivers

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 7, 2025October 10, 2025

More than four thousand years ago, long before cities rose and written words captured history, people roamed the windswept plains…

Archaeologists Uncover 3,000-Year-Old Ritual Sites That Reveal the True Birthplace of Chinese Civilization

Archaeologists Uncover 3,000-Year-Old Ritual Sites That Reveal the True Birthplace of Chinese Civilization

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 7, 2025October 10, 2025

Long before the First Emperor of China raised his mighty armies and declared the unification of a vast land, another…

5,000-Year-Old Bones Found in Canals Reveal a Dark and Strange Ritual of Ancient China

5,000-Year-Old Bones Found in Canals Reveal a Dark and Strange Ritual of Ancient China

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 4, 2025October 8, 2025

Archaeology is often a dialogue with silence. The bones, stones, and remnants left behind by ancient cultures do not speak…

Scientists Uncover How Ancient Farmers Transformed Europe’s Fields 7,000 Years Ago

Scientists Uncover How Ancient Farmers Transformed Europe’s Fields 7,000 Years Ago

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 3, 2025October 8, 2025

Nearly 7,000 years ago, in the fertile valleys and river plains of Central Europe, human hands reshaped the destiny of…

Ancient Humans Feasted on Giant Sloths—And May Have Eaten Them to Extinction

Ancient Humans Feasted on Giant Sloths—And May Have Eaten Them to Extinction

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 2, 2025October 8, 2025

When we imagine the diets of early humans, it is easy to picture small game roasting over an open fire,…

Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Skeleton with Arrow Still Lodged in the Bone—And a Story of Survival

Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Skeleton with Arrow Still Lodged in the Bone—And a Story of Survival

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 1, 2025October 1, 2025

Archaeology has a way of whispering across centuries, turning fragments of bone and soil into stories of human struggle, survival,…

12,000-Year-Old Rock Art Found in Saudi Desert Reveals Forgotten Human Story

12,000-Year-Old Rock Art Found in Saudi Desert Reveals Forgotten Human Story

Editors of ScienceNewsTodayOctober 1, 2025October 2, 2025

At the height of the Last Glacial Maximum, around 20,000 years ago, northern Arabia was an unforgiving land. Hyper-arid conditions…

Why Did Ordinary Merchants Carry Ivory Combs? A 3,000-Year-Old Mystery Solved

Why Did Ordinary Merchants Carry Ivory Combs? A 3,000-Year-Old Mystery Solved

Editors of ScienceNewsTodaySeptember 30, 2025September 30, 2025

For thousands of years, ivory has captivated the human imagination. Smooth, pale, and lustrous, it was prized as both a…

The Legend of the Seven Caves of Aztec Origin

The Legend of the Seven Caves of Aztec Origin

Editors of ScienceNewsTodaySeptember 30, 2025September 30, 2025

Every culture tells a story about its birth. For the Mexica—whom we now call the Aztecs—this story is painted with…

The Lost City of Ubar: Arabia’s Atlantis

The Lost City of Ubar: Arabia’s Atlantis

Editors of ScienceNewsTodaySeptember 30, 2025September 30, 2025

In the heart of the Arabian Peninsula lies one of history’s most tantalizing enigmas—a city whispered about in ancient scriptures,…

The Unexplained Bog Bodies of Northern Europe

The Unexplained Bog Bodies of Northern Europe

Editors of ScienceNewsTodaySeptember 30, 2025September 30, 2025

In the quiet, damp landscapes of Northern Europe, beneath layers of sphagnum moss and peat, lies one of archaeology’s most…

The Gold Masks of Mycenaean Greece

The Gold Masks of Mycenaean Greece

Editors of ScienceNewsTodaySeptember 30, 2025September 30, 2025

In the soft light of the Greek sun, where olive groves spread across rugged hills and the Aegean Sea whispers…

The Undeciphered Etruscan Language

The Undeciphered Etruscan Language

Editors of ScienceNewsTodaySeptember 30, 2025September 30, 2025

There are moments in history when we feel the haunting presence of voices that have been silenced, their words lingering…

The Lost Civilization of Lemuria

The Lost Civilization of Lemuria

Editors of ScienceNewsTodaySeptember 30, 2025September 30, 2025

Throughout human history, we have looked to the oceans with a mix of awe and mystery. They are vast, unfathomable,…

The Origin of the Sea Peoples

The Origin of the Sea Peoples

Editors of ScienceNewsTodaySeptember 30, 2025September 30, 2025

In the fading years of the Late Bronze Age, when mighty empires stretched across the eastern Mediterranean and kings claimed…

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