Category: Archaeology
Chemical traces in ancient hair reveal cannabis was used to get high 2,800 years ago
Shipwreck survivors may have built a temporary camp on a remote Argentine island in 1873
A rare Celtic warrior helmet was deliberately smashed and buried 2,400 years ago in Poland
Magnetic anomalies led divers to a 17th-century shipwreck hidden beneath the Baltic seabed
Inside a brittle carbonized scroll, X-rays recovered hidden words without opening it
Grass leaves, stems and flowers were deliberately carried deep into an Australian cave and burned
The Devil’s Arrows came from a rocky landscape 18 kilometers away
Teeth show that people in Sulawesi were sucking whole betel nuts 25,000 years ago
The blue demon was the strongest visual focus in an Etruscan tomb built for an unusually immersive soundscape
Plant resin held these wallaby teeth in place as jewelry more than 1,000 years ago
Giant Rainbow Serpents appeared across Arnhem Land as European colonization disrupted Aboriginal life
Children as young as 4 developed spinal damage from hard labor centuries ago
People in ancient Georgia were drinking cacao 800 years ago
A young woman’s grave was reopened before her body decomposed—and a sickle was placed across her neck
Neolithic people in central Anatolia repeatedly marked obsidian arrowheads for reasons still unknown
Stone tools suggest Neanderthals may have reached northern Arabia around 55,000 years ago
A 6,500-year-old human tooth was turned into a carefully crafted pendant in Neolithic Serbia
Inside a Luxor tomb, later burials were placed directly over earlier ones
Bronze Age Greeks wore rings made from iron that fell from the sky
Nearly all of the shackled men in ancient Greek mass graves grew up locally
The first Papuan-related migrants reached Fiji nearly 2,000 years ago
Neanderthals used overlooked bone fragments as hammers, wedges and tools for working hides and plants
The 5,300-year-old Iceman is not as frozen in time as he seems
Violent Supernova Kicks Sent Some Milky Way Black Holes Beyond the Galaxy While Others Drifted 2.5 Times Higher Than the Stellar Disk
After More Than 7,000 Artifacts, Students Unearth a Palm-Sized Pot Left Whole Inside a Mysterious Spanish-Era Structure in Florida
Archaeologists Uncovered Two Possible Premature Twins Sealed Inside an Abandoned Roman Latrine for More Than 1,100 Years
When lasers stripped away the Amazon’s dense canopy, they revealed hundreds of ancient geometric monuments that had been hiding in plain sight for centuries
As rising reservoir waters closed in on an ancient Angolan settlement, archaeologists uncovered a pottery urn holding the country’s only known cremation beside centuries-old stone graves that had remained hidden for more than 500 years
Newly Discovered Late Bronze Age Gold Diadems From Cyprus Reveal a Distinct Local Style Shaped by Egyptian, Minoan, Mycenaean, and Near Eastern Influences
Study Finds Ice Age Cave Paintings Followed a Consistent Graphic System Across Magdalenian Europe Rather Than Random Artistic Choices
