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Residues from 2,500-year-old ceramic vessels still contain the ingredients used by craftsmen to embalm the dead.
Study suggests thousands of archaeological sites remain undiscovered
The past meets the future as AI deciphers ancient texts destroyed by volcano eruption.
3D scans reveal Thyra, Harald Bluetooth's mother, as the most commemorated figure on Viking runestones, underscoring women's influence in that era.
The sheer diversity of structures at the site makes it stand out among its peers.
They described it as “exceptional” and in great state of preservation
It’s now a place for learning, but long ago it had a very different reputation.
An extinct language hidden within a cuneiform tablet sheds light on the mysterious land of Kalašma.
It predates rise of modern humans and could have formed a platform
Steel tools were employed in Europe centuries before they became widespread during the Roman Republic era.
The past uncovers a sparkling secret with technological implications for the present.
A story of stars, trees, solar bursts, and Vikings.
A 4,000-year-old discovery emerges from the melting ice.
This new study opens up the potential to study many ancient clay bricks in a new way.
The dug pipe, the oldest ever discovered in China, controlled water runoff and potentially contained it in a moat.
The arrow is out of this world.
It's the oldest example of systematic coal use in history.
Scientists X-rayed the sword, shedding new light on the ancient weapon and its potential owner.
The discovery challenges our understanding of women's involvement in warfare during the Iron Age.
Archaeologists are opening a new window into the past.
New research is unraveling the high-climbing habits and rope technologies of ancient Spanish Levantine societies.
This type of sanctuary may have been more common than we thought.
Skeleton discovered in a tomb had been wrongly identified as a man.
London has plenty of attractions. Now, you can add another one to the list.
Could Neanderthals have been the first artists?
It still looks amazing!
Ancient engineers had their work cut out for themselves.
The findings may explain why Greece has been a hotbed for human civilization.
Archaeologists were puzzled by the mysterious ruins. But then, they found a "smoking gun."
Bridging the past and the future, ultraviolet light exposes a long-lost Biblical translation.
Mesopotamian clay tablets depict the earliest evidence of kissing.
It could have broad implications for understanding the origins of modern civilization
It looks so out of place and we have so many questions.
How did human DNA end up in a deer tooth pendant?
It's more than a history mystery. This might pave the way to creating new construction materials.
The fortified camps were likely staging areas for an undocumented military campaign against an ancient kingdom in modern-day Jordan.
Ancient proteins trapped in dental calculus reveal how people conquered the rough Tibetan hinterlands.
In 2022 we detailed the discovery of 1,500 stone points in France’s Madrin cave. Experiments now show that they could were used as arrowheads, pushing back evidence of archery in Eurasia by 40,000 years.
There are surprising similarities to the tools made by humans.
It's a very dangerous procedure.
In AD 79, a baker prepared a loaf in the Roman city of Pompeii.
We're starting to find more traces of Denisovan-human interbreeding.
Bronze Age people used long straws to share beer from the same vessel.
This kind of thing doesn't happen very often, so archaeologists dealt with it carefully.
This 11,000 year-old scene is quite the artistic roller coaster.
The discovery of forgotten photos is helping archaeologists piece together prehistoric burial practices.
The Stone Age tool manufacturing workshop produced standardized handaxes, showing our earliest ancestors were much more forward thinking than we might have thought.
Mixing drones, magnetometers, and "surgical" digging, archaeologists are looking at the past in new ways.
Love is beyond life and death, this ancient letter proves it.
It's a huge discovery that could help decipher one of the greatest mysteries in archaeology.
