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Nov 26, 2025 · Archaeology A clay figurine unveils a storytelling shift from 12,000 years ago A carefully crafted figure of a goose and a woman suggests that art reflecting spiritual beliefs …
Archaeology’s top discoveries of 2024 include preserved brains …
Dec 17, 2024 · Archaeology’s top discoveries of 2024 include preserved brains and a lost city Preserved brains, arthritis in ancient Egypt and other finds made headlines
Rethinking archaeology and place - Science News
Nov 2, 2024 · Pompeii. Machu Picchu. Stonehenge. Angkor Wat. The Great Pyramid of Giza. Those of us who grew up in Western cultures tend to think of archaeology as the study of a …
A race to save Indigenous trails may change the face of archaeology
Oct 29, 2024 · As construction of a pipeline nears, an effort to preserve an Indigenous trail in Canada tests whether heritage management can keep up with advances in archaeology.
British tin might have fueled the rise of some Bronze Age …
May 6, 2025 · Chemical evidence of tin from coastal British sites reaching Bronze Age Mediterranean societies highlights a supply chain dispute.
This ancient Siberian ice mummy had a talented tattooist
Aug 7, 2025 · Researchers reconstructed a roughly 2,000-year-old woman’s tattoos, from prowling tigers to a fantastical griffinlike creature.
King Tut’s tomb has secrets to reveal 100 years after its discovery
Nov 2, 2022 · More of Tut’s story is poised to come to light in the coming years. Here are four things to know on the 100th anniversary of his tomb’s discovery.
7 stone tools might rewrite the timeline of hominid migration in …
Aug 6, 2025 · 7 stone tools might rewrite the timeline of hominid migration in Indonesia Excavated implements suggest a Homo species arrived on Sulawesi over 1 million years ago
Lidar reveals the oldest and biggest Maya structure yet found
Jun 3, 2020 · Lidar reveals the oldest and biggest Maya structure yet found Excavations and airborne mapping unveil a society that from its beginnings built big
Stone Age hunter-gatherers may have been surprisingly skilled …
Apr 9, 2025 · New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.