From Bronze Age brain surgery to Neanderthal cave etchings, here's what we learned about the human story this year.
A group of horse-riding warriors kept some gruesome battle trophies.
The 6,500-year-old cemetery may be five times larger than assumed, resetting our notions of northern prehistoric…
A new aerial tour by Flyover Zone lets you visit the Colosseum, the Circus Maximus, and more.
Mount Vesuvius buried Herculaneum in volcanic ash 2,000 years ago. Modern tech is revealing lost texts from the town.
Two stones honor Thyra, mother of Harald Bluetooth, namesake of the modern technology.
The 1,900-year-old swords, discovered in exceptional condition alongside a pilum, may be a hidden cache that…
The burial site contained grave goods and the prehistoric individual’s intact skeleton.
Chemical analysis of the 2,000-year-old remains was manageable despite contamination of the remains from plaster…
The remains date to over 7,000 years ago, but not all of the individuals in the cave appear intentionally buried.
Scientists revisiting the famous mummy’s genome found he had dark skin and was probably bald in life.
SaxaVord Spaceport, on U.K.'s most northerly inhabited island, has unexpectedly yielded Bronze Age artifacts.
Chemical imaging of 3,100-year-old artwork is showing how ancient artists revised their work.
It’s well-painted, well-preserved, and very much not an actual depiction of a pizza. Still, flatbread shouldn’t have…
La Roche-Cotard in France was sealed in the ancient past, indicating another Homo species was responsible for the…
A team of archaeologists posit a unique theory about 12,000-year-old bird bones from the Levant, which appear to…
Three newly found wrecks were studied and imaged, along with three previously known Roman wrecks.
New troves of fish bones in eastern Beringia point to the early origins of freshwater fishing among some of the…
Romantic images on tablets from Mesopotamia could place the earliest evidence of kissing to 2500 BCE.
Two etchings for desert kites are thousands of years old, archaeologists say.