Lasers reveal sites used as the Americas’ oldest known star calendars
Olmec and Maya people living along Mexico’s Gulf Coast as early as 3,100 years ago...
Inequality in medieval Cambridge was ‘recorded on the bones’ of its residents
The remains of an individual buried in the Augustinian friary, taken during the 2016 excavation...
The oldest known abrading tool was used around 350,000 years ago
A round stone excavated at Israel’s Tabun Cave in the 1960s represents the oldest known...
Oldest city in the Americas under threat from squatters
Having survived for 5,000 years, the oldest archeological site in the Americas is under threat...
Egypt unveils ancient funerary temple south of Cairo
A trove of ancient coffins and artifacts on display that Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass and...
One of the oldest known cave paintings has been found in Indonesia
Inside a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, scientists have found one of the...
Ivory from a shipwreck reveals new details about African elephants
In 2008, miners off the coast of Namibia stumbled upon buried treasure: a sunken Portuguese...
Ancestral Puebloans melted ice in lava tubes to survive droughts
During a parched summer almost 2,000 years ago, people living in what is now western...
Two stones fuel debate over when America’s first settlers arrived
Scientific debate about the most controversial archaeological site in the Americas has entered rocky new...
The biblical warrior Goliath may not have been so giant after all
Early versions of the Bible describe Goliath — an ancient Philistine warrior best known as...