Archaeology News

People lived on a water-scarce island in northern Sri Lanka 3,460 years ago

1.6 million years ago, early humans carried the meatiest leg bones away from kill sites

Neanderthal used a stone tool to drill into a painful, infected tooth 59,000 years ago

Nearly 1,400 years ago, a Langobard woman survived severe head injuries

Fire use may date back nearly 1.8 million years at a South African cave

More than a century before the earliest known Maya date, a monument records A.D. 180

Long after Maya cities were abandoned, people returned to their sacred places for rituals

There was no single moment when Homo sapiens suddenly became modern

After Rome fell, northern European ancestry spread through Hungary without a single mass migration

These 500-year-old potatoes survived inside an Inca storage jar

The gold coins that helped solve a 30-year-old shipwreck mystery off Devon

Two brothers shared the same bloodline but were buried 656 feet apart in radically different graves

17th-century goose skulls show people were breeding birds with feathered crests

Children as young as 4 showed spinal damage linked to hard labor in the 1600s and 1700s

3,000 years ago, Northern Ireland was home to a proto-urban center built around craft, feasting and ritual

Early Americans got most of their food from mammoths and other giant herbivores

The 2,600-year-old bells were broken apart to change their role in the afterlife

Egyptian princesses may have really used the bows and weapons buried with them

Nearly 400 years underground, a tiny clay pot survives intact with its purpose still unknown

Malta was too small to sustain its first foragers without repeated 50-mile sea crossings