Inscriptions on religious artifacts could reveal the identities of Jewish people who donated the objects to the synagogue. A historic synagogue near Kraków, Poland, was mostly destroyed by Nazis during World War II, but a secret hoard of precious ritual…
Original position of the skeletal remains inside the submerged cave of Muknal. These remains date back to about 10,000 years ago and belonged to an adult male. The earliest humans in North America were far more diverse than previously realized,…
The remains of Takabuti, a woman who was murdered 2,600 years ago in Egypt. It took 2,600 years to crack the case, but Egyptologists have finally determined how a curly haired, elite woman from ancient Thebes met her untimely end. …
The same fundamental platform that allows Schrödinger’s cat to be both alive and dead, and also means two particles can “speak to each other” even across a galaxy’s distance, could help to explain perhaps the most mysterious phenomena: human behavior.…
A surprising new discovery of ancient human remains in Africa — with remarkably well-preserved DNA — is redrawing the map of human populations in new and exciting ways. Pierre de Maret Louis UniversityThe rock shelter at Shum Laka, where the…
When the volcano erupted in 79 A.D., it baked hundreds of people to death — and transformed at least one victim’s brain matter into hard, twisted, glassy bits. The New England Journal of Medicine 2019Glassy black brain material extracted from the…
Archaeologists found the bottle at a Civil War-era site on the median of Interstate 64 in York County, Virginia. A glass bottle filled with rusted nails may not sound like much of an archaeological find. But this Civil War artifact…
Here, a close-up of one of the engravings (in green contrast) in Peru that was scanned reveals a circular design with a hole in the center and lines radiating outward. A sprawling, stone monument decorated with swirls, circular patterns and…
The rich assemblage of grave goods indicates that the person buried here held a high status. Archaeologists have found the remains of an entire iron-wheeled war chariot in a newly discovered Iron Age tomb in central Italy, a new study…
The rock shelter at Shum Laka in Cameroon. Surprisingly, the ancient people who lived at this rock shelter are not related to the people in the region today. During the Stone Age in what is now western Cameroon, four children…
The mummified body of the ancient Egyptian priest Nesyamun underwent medical scans in 2018 so that a copy of its vocal tract could be made. The voice of an ancient Egyptian priest has been heard for the first time in…
Fragment of glassy black material extracted from the cranial cavity of a victim of the volcanic eruption at Herculaneum in the year 79. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year 79, the volcano unleashed an avalanche of gas and rock…