France returns skulls of beheaded King Toera to Madagascar after 128 years
A Malagasy monarch who was killed over a century ago during the colonial conquest by France has finally been buried in his homeland after the return of…
80,000-year-old arrowheads in Uzbekistan may be the world’s oldest, possibly made by Neanderthals
Archaeologists in north-eastern Uzbekistan have unearthed what are possibly the world’s earliest arrowheads from the Obi-Rakhmat rock shelter. The small triangular tools, or “micropoints,” date to around…
Bronze Age Carnoustie hoard to go on public display for the first time
A remarkable Bronze Age hoard unearthed near Carnoustie, Angus, has been formally acquired by National Museums Scotland and will go on public display for the first time…
Çatalhöyük excavations uncover “House of the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ” with evidence of ritual practices
Archaeologists at Çatalhöyük, one of the most important sites in central Türkiye, have unearthed new evidence of ritual activity that sheds light on early town life and…
Maya children’s teeth with jade inlays reveal rare ancient practice, study finds
Archaeologists have made a surprising discovery in Maya cultural traditions: decorative jade dental inlays, a practice previously thought to be exclusive to adults, have now been found…
Excavations reveal a Maya mission town’s defiant stand in early colonial era
In the countryside of northern Yucatán, archaeologists uncovered the remnants of Hunacti. This short-lived 16th-century mission town tells a complicated story of cooperation, resistance, and cultural survival…
Ancient Siloam Dam shows early engineering response to climate change around 800 BCE
A large water system in the City of David has been precisely dated to nearly 2,800 years ago, a discovery that sheds new light on the engineering…
Farming spread through migration, not local adoption, ancient DNA reveals
Around 10,000 years ago, human groups experienced one of the most important changes in the history of humanity: the shift from gathering and hunting to farming. The…
Treasures resurface from Egypt’s sunken city of Canopus, the ancient port lost to the sea
During the past quarter-century, three gigantic ancient monuments have been brought back from beneath the Mediterranean off Abu Qir, Egypt. Their recovery has reawakened global attention to…
Tiny Viking game piece reveals first portrait and 10th-century hairstyles
A small figurine carved more than a thousand years ago is rewriting the history of the Vikings. The three-centimeter-high artifact depicts a bearded male with a well-styled…