Stone Age People Used This 35,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Tusk Tool to Make Rope, Scientists Say The rope is one of the oldest human tools, and it played a crucial role in the daily lives of many ancient civilizations. Drawings found…
Archaeologists Discover 1,700-Year-Old Jade Mask Inside the Tomb of a Maya King Archaeologists excavating a looted pyramid tomb in the ruins of a Mayan city in Peten, northeast Guatemala, have discovered a mysterious interlocking jade mask believed to have belonged…
200-Million-Year-Old Flying Reptile Kuehneosaurus Discovered In Somerset, UK Gliding winged-reptiles were among the ancient crocodile residents of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, researchers at the University of Bristol have revealed. Kuehneosaurs looked like lizards, but were more closely related to…
DNA From 10,000-Year-Old Scandinavian Chewing Gum Reveals Stone Age Diet Some 9,700 years ago on an autumn day, a group of people were camping on the west coast of Scandinavia. They were hunter-gatherers that had been fishing, hunting and collecting…
Ancient Egyptian Tombs With Stunning Trove Of Artifacts And Human Remains Unearthed In Saqqara Remarkable treasures have been discovered in the tomb, including a Second Dynasty child burial, a well-preserved alabaster vessel from the 18th Dynasty, and terracotta statues depicting…
Archaeologists, First-ever Roman-era Tombs Dug Directly into the Rock Uncovered in Al Bahnasa, Egypt Rock-hewn Ptolemaic and Roman tombs with intriguing golden masks, mummies, coffins, and terracotta statues have been unearthed in the historic city of Al Bahnasa in the…
Mysterious Anomaly In Earth’s Magnetic Field Documented On 3,000-Year-Old Mesopotamian Bricks Inscriptions on Mesopotamian bricks promoting the king when they were fired have helped reveal the details of a curious strengthening of the Earth’s magnetic field. Traces of this puzzling…
Unusual 300,000-Year-Old Jawbone May Belong To An Unknown Vanished Human Lineage Anthropologists in China have unearthed fragments of a lower jaw that may have belonged to an unknown human lineage. The bone, which is around 300,000 years old, belonged to a young…
North America’s First People May Have Arrived By Sea Ice Highway 24,000 Years Ago One of the hottest debates in archaeology is how and when humans first arrived in North America. Archaeologists have traditionally argued that people walked through an…
Biocrusts on Great Wall of China found to be protecting it from erosion Large swaths of the Great Wall of China are held together thanks to “biocrusts,” thin layers of organic materials that have helped protect the architectural marvel from erosion. Scientists…