One lead projectile fired at ancient Hippos was inscribed with “Learn your lesson!” and still bears the scar of impact
More than 950 Iron Age objects buried near a British power center include parts from at least seven substantial four-wheeled wagons
Around 75,000 years ago, harsh Ice Age conditions pushed Neanderthals into southwestern Europe, where a surviving lineage later spread across the continent
A 125,000-year-old wooden spear lodged between an elephant’s ribs now sits alongside cut marks showing Neanderthals killed and butchered the 3,500-kilogram animal at a German lakeshore
More than 700 kilometers from Colombia, emeralds reached elite Panamanian tombs after passing through an unknown chain of communities
2,600-year-old structure lies 3 to 6 meters beneath ancient Egypt’s Buto, where scans found mudbrick walls and religious artifacts
Puppies buried beside people at a 15,800-year-old Anatolian camp belong to a dog lineage already found at Gough’s Cave in Britain by 14,000 years ago
Built around AD 551 from roughly 25,000 pine logs, Raknehaugen may have been a ritual monument to an ancient landslide rather than the elite tomb archaeologists expected to find
For centuries, Empedocles’ own words were lost—now a 2,000-year-old Cairo papyrus restores 30 verses on vision and the senses
3,000-year-old clay tablet from Syria preserves an all-night royal anti-witchcraft ritual involving burning wax and clay figures
Radiocarbon dates place a giant Cucuteni building in the 40th or 39th century BC—earlier than its pottery chronology allows
Photon-counting CT is letting scientists see the bones, teeth and bandages of Egyptian mummy remains more than 2,300 years old without disturbing them
Herlaugshaugen’s buried ship was more than 20 meters long—and dates to around AD 700, decades before Norway’s earliest known Viking Age ship mounds
His cleft lip and palate did not keep him from family life: a 16- to 18-year-old in Qing China was buried alongside a likely wife in an ordinary family tomb
Nearly 2,000-year-old Roman waste preserves traces of a parasite once thought to have originated in Central America
Two children buried 10,000 years ago show people were living along Patagonia’s Atlantic coast much earlier than thought
DNA identifies four more sailors from the doomed Franklin expedition, including a man whose identity was disputed for 165 years
