Ancient DNA Reveals Ice Age Humans Disproportionately Targeted Female Woolly Mammoths
Ancient DNA recovered from more than 500 woolly mammoths has revealed an unexpected pattern in the relationship between Ice Age people and one of the…
Zack Rafiel
Nearly 2,000-Year-Old Bones Reveal What Vesuvius Victims Near Pompeii Ate
Nearly 2,000-year-old human remains from Oplontis, near Pompeii, are revealing what people living in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius regularly ate before the catastrophic eruption…
New AI Identifies 7,000-Year-Old Seeds to Reconstruct Ancient Farming
A new AI system designed to identify ancient plant remains is giving archaeologists a faster way to study charred seeds that preserve evidence of what…
23 Ancient Artifacts Returned from France Are on Display in Damascus After 15 Years
Twenty-three archaeological artifacts returned to Syria from France after about 15 years are now on display at Damascus Citadel, including funerary reliefs from Palmyra and…
2,500-Year-Old Coțofenești Gold Helmet with Greek and Scythian Influences to Be Restored
The Coțofenești Gold Helmet, a 2,500-year-old masterpiece of Getic art, is set to undergo restoration in Romania after specialists completed an extensive program of scientific…
Dry Summer Reveals Lost Garden and Medieval Buildings Beneath England’s Lawns
Prolonged hot and dry weather across southern England has revealed the outlines of a lost garden and medieval buildings, as parch marks emerge across the…
More Than 5,500-Year-Old Graves and a Hyksos-Era Settlement Unearthed in Egypt’s Nile Delta
Archaeologists excavating a site in Egypt’s eastern Nile Delta have uncovered evidence of communities that lived and buried their dead there across more than five…
The 1,100-Year-Old Alfred Jewel May Have Been a Manuscript Reading Pointer
The Alfred Jewel, a 1,100-year-old Anglo-Saxon object associated with King Alfred the Great, may have been a manuscript reading pointer rather than simply an elaborate…
Hundreds of Dressel 1A Amphorae Found at 2,100-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck off Sicily
At a depth of 46 metres off southwestern Sicily, investigators have documented a Roman shipwreck surrounded by hundreds of amphorae, two lead anchor stocks and…