- New South African fossils show ever more diversity in early hominid species (details)
- Indigenous-led archaeology corrects and expands on Victoria, Australia, prehistory (details)
- Death threats to famed archaeologist excavating Peru’s most ancient city (details)
- Treasure hunter who disturbed Yellowstone’s historic cemetery pleads guilty (details)
- Ancient Peruvian farmers used cyclical climate patterns as an advantage (details)
- Bozeman Trail proponents seek national historic designation status (details)
- New excavations reveal details of daily life in Pompeii (details)
- Analysis of tree rings provides fresh evidence of climatic fluctuations (details)
- Hoards of counterfeit silver show how rulers propped up currency in early Middle East (details)
- Climate change, not Genghis Khan, caused the end of Central Asian kingdoms (details)
- More skulls found from Aztec tower of skulls in Mexico City (details)
- Scottish cross from Viking-era hoard shows craftsmanship fit for a king (details)
- Bronze Age grave in Croatia holds bones of warrior still wearing his bronze helmet (details)
- Norwegian ice patch reveals evidence of reindeer hunting across 6000 years (details)
- Prehistoric Southwestern mummies show entire communities offered help to the dying (details)
- Pandemic stay-home in UK leads to gardening, with a harvest of Tudor-era coins (details)
- Ancient necropolis in Tauste adds to evidence of an extended Islamic presence (details)
- New research techniques reveal extensive water collection systems at Tikal (details)
- Multi-national effort unravels illegal transfer and auction of looted Greek artifacts (details)
- Vast collections of prehistoric rock art imagery found on remote cliffs in Colombia (details)
- Chewed-upon hallucinogenic plant remains found in cave with rock art (details)
- Ancestral Puebloans used thousands of turkey feathers to make blanket (details)
- Ancient city in Saudi Arabia now restored and open to the public (details)
- More mask reliefs depicting traditional motifs found in ancient Turkish theater (details)
- Teeth from Bronze Age site in Spain show that women were fiber specialists (details)
- Andes burial from 9,000 years ago reveals young, female big-game hunter (details)
- Greenwich Palace exploration finds the spot where everything changed for Henry VIII (details)
- Search for Tulsa Massacre remains finds coffins that were buried without marker (details)
- Ancient dog DNA is being used to help trace human history (details)
- Research in the United States examines what it meant to be a Mississippian (details)
- Evidence shows ancient people in Turkey successfully adapted to climate change (details)
- Newly found signet with the image Apollo points to a pluralistic Jerusalem (details)
- New Nazca Line discovery shows a cat sprawling across the hillside (details)
- As glaciers in the Alps melt, archaeologists race to rescue fragile artifacts (details)
- Archaeologists fear retrieval of Titanic radio may disturb human remains (details)
- Scientists find new ways to conserve Arctic Circle artifacts (details)
- Ancient humans in the Amazon used managed forest practices (details)
- Archaeologists determine how people first settled on Caribbean islands (details)
- Humans have affected global ecosystems for longer than previously believed (details)
- Renewed interest in New Mexico’s 1680 Pueblo Revolt in wake of 2020 protests (details)
- Early edition of final Shakespeare play found in Scottish seminary in Spain (details)
- Major exhibit on 400th anniversary of the Mayflower balances myth with truth (details)
- Geochemistry of Egyptian bird mummies reveals they were hunted (details)
- New dates for Hadrianopolis near Black Sea put city’s founding in the Copper Age (details)
- Illegal gold mining obliterates archaeological sites in Sudan (details)
- Romans in a Red Sea trading port bought monkeys from India as pets (details)
- Africa’s early music traditions are traced through scattered artifacts (details)
- Port construction in northern Chile unearths well dressed, well preserved mummies (details)
- Boxgrove site in Britain offers rare glimpse of ice age tool kit (details)
- Island chain in eastern Indonesia reveals evidence of early human migration (details)
- Work continues on historical Black cemeteries in America (details)
- Ancient stone monuments in Saudi Arabia offer clues to early pastoral peoples (details)
- Fluted tools were developed independently in North America and Arabia (details)
- Divers find rare intact Inca offerings in South American lake (details)
- Australian mining company apologizes for destroying Aboriginal heritage site (details)
- Northern Ireland’s Navan Fort may be part of larger temple complex (details)
- Studies of pirate shipwreck suggests Blackbeard abandoned it intentionally (details)
- Viking age burials produce smallpox DNA that adds new twist to history (details)
- New studies from Mexican cave and other early sites put North American arrival at 30,000 years ago (details)
- New site in Jerusalem is from time of the biblical kings (details)
- Korea Legoland theme park plows through priceless prehistoric site (details)
- Volcano in Alaska helped push Roman Republic to the tipping point (details)
- Bad water in Maya city of Tikal came partly from dangerous paint (details)
- Old spy photos and new satellite technology find 14,000 new sites in northeastern Syria (details)
- Bone isotope studies trace how maize became the cornerstone of Mesoamerican diets (details)
- New DNA studies show multiple Caribbean migrations, followed by local culture change (details)
- Sea otter studies help explain the past and guide the present (details)
- Ancient death in Turkey illuminates the turbulence of early social change (details)
- 3D Footprints in Tanzania suggest gendered group activities (details)
- Competition with modern humans may have been the cause of Neanderthal extinction, new research suggests (details)
- Cadaver dogs may become archaeologists’ newest noninvasive tool (details)
- Bone arrowpoint in southern Africa gives early date for advanced human cognition (details)
- Cahokia city causeway shows link between the living, the dead, and the Milky Way (details)
- Early immigrants into the Indonesian islands switched from fish diet to giant rat (details)
- High-energy X-rays help study and conserve metal artifacts from Renaissance-era ship (details)
- Archaeological evidence puts pandemic effects into historical perspective (details)
- Ottoman merchant ship carried a surprisingly abundant cargo (details)
- New study: Salish Sea basin was very densely populated and had very ancient culture (details)
- Rising seas drove Scandinavian hunter-gatherers toward marine resources (details)
- Culturally distinct cuisines among ancient Baltic hunter-gatherers (details)
- New series of direct dates on contact period sites upends assumptions about Iroquois history (details)
- Bones from Çatalhöyük show practice of household burials, differences in women’s lifestyle (details)
- Bulgarian grave mound turns up unique objects from Roman empire (details)
- The first Africans in Mexico City reveal insights into infectious diseases (details)
- Melting ice in Norwegian pass reveals artifacts tracing trade and upland farming (details)
- Molecular analysis shows history of milk and meat diet of east African cattle-herders (details)
- Iron Age British rabbits and chickens were pets, not food, and sacred to the gods (details)
- Sites in Alaska show heavy traffic, hunting and occupation in extreme weather (details)
- Oldest string ever found shows new evidence of Neanderthal brain power (details)
- Mexican site shows how Mesoamerican copper smelting was adapted to new Spanish needs (details)
- German Bronze Age site shows increasing similarities to Stonehenge (details)
- London finds from 3000 years ago suggest long use for settlement and rituals (details)
- Mammoth bone circle may be ice age Russian house (details)
- New book debunks claim that Ponce de Leon was first European to see Florida (details)
- Indonesian stone carvings are oldest stand-alone Ice Age art from southeast Asia (details)
- New stupa find in Bangladesh is unusual pyramid shape and size (details)
- Protecting and preserving ancient sites at risk from sea-level rise In Florida (details)
- Olives first domesticated 7,000 years ago in Israel, study says (details)
- Eggshell beads made by hunter-gatherers 33,000 years ago used as a social network (details)
- Ancient art found in Basque country changes understanding of prehistoric society (details)
- New survey to search for shipwrecks off California’s Channel Islands (details)
- Indian museum exhibit recreates Harappan menu, stirring up new fight over ancient diet (details)
- New databases of evidence from Incan conquest period show extent of forced relocation (details)
- Italian monastery turns up ancient sword showing development of bronze in Anatolia (details)
- Recovered crew artifacts from ill-fated Franklin Expedition support new hypotheses (details)
- Image of Egyptian sun God Ra discovered in ancient coffin at Harvard (details)
- Collapse of reservoir’s dam could have influenced importance of Angkor Wat (details)
- Significant 7th century BC tomb almost lost to construction of new sports complex in Italy (details)
- Medieval mansion site explored in west London (details)
- New studies show Cahokia area continued to thrive after giant city was abandoned (details)
- Cave site suggests Neanderthals migrated into Siberia twice, the second time from Europe (details)
- Assyrian gods appear in new rock carvings from Kurdistan (details)
- Basque whaling ship reassembled in celebration of local maritime history (details)
- Surprising DNA finds provide new insight into spread of human populations from sub-Saharan Africa (details)
- Extensive Aboriginal ancient aquaculture system uncovered by Australian bushfires (details)
- World’s oldest mosaic found in lost Hittite city (details)
- New reading of a viking runestone suggests fear of a climate disaster (details)
- Search begins for unmarked African-American graves in Clearwater (details)
- Researchers publish 1,400 Iraqi cuneiform tablets stored at Hobby Lobby, many now missing (details)
- New oldest sketch of Venice discovered (details)