Forged in magma and capable of producing the sharpest blades on Earth, obsidian is without a doubt one of the most badass…
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When the veteran telecoms engineer Damien Finch went on a three-week bush walk in Australia’s Kimberley region, he became enthralled…
Extra sections of an ancient aquaculture system built by Indigenous people in south-west Victoria thousands of years ago have been…
The impact of humans on nature has been far greater and longer-lasting than we could ever imagine, according to scientists.…
Five thousand and seven hundred years ago, “Lola,” a blue-eyed woman with dark skin and hair, chewed on a slice…
A facelift of a pagan idol who required child sacrifice had been stationed on the door of Rome’s Colosseum as half…
In a “sensational” find, Russian paleontologists carrying out excavations on the Taman Peninsula have announced the first ever discovery of…
In 1886, the British archaeologist Arthur Evans came across an ancient stone bearing a curious set of inscriptions in an…
The discovery of 137 new stone ‘jars of the dead’ that date back more than a thousand years ago has deepened…
The most ancient type of molecule in our universe, which dates all the way back to the immediate aftermath of…
In a cave in the Philippines, scientists have discovered a new branch of the human family tree. At least 50,000…
Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a drink that was said to promise everlasting life. It was found secretly stowed…
Finding an address on a map can be taken for granted in the age of GPS and smartphones. But centuries…
By Laura C. Mallonee What happens when a wide swath of history — previously only explored by white-gloved librarians and…
It was a vast boat that saved two of each animal and a handful of humans from a catastrophic flood.…
Prehistory literally means the time “before we had written records” (roughly the time before the 4th Century BC) and ancient…
By Stephanie Pappas A new, improved sequencing of ancient human relative genomes reveals that Homo sapiens didn’t only have sex…
By Glenn Hodges One thousand years ago, on a floodplain of the Mississippi River near modern-day St. Louis, the massive…