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
NWA 13441 preserves a 1.273-billion-year-old piece of Mars with neodymium isotopes matching the solar system’s earliest composition, hinting that deep Martian material escaped billions of years of change
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
Betelgeuse’s inner atmosphere is now strikingly patchy, with hot spots 800 degrees hotter than nearby regions
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
