How tides shaped the rise of ancient Sumer, the world’s first civilization, new study reveals
A new study is rewriting the history of ancient Sumer’s rise, long considered the cradle of civilization. The study, which was published in PLOS One, argues that…
Mystery hominin skull discovered in 1960 dated to at least 286,000 years old
A mystery in human evolution may be close to being solved, thanks to a new study by the Insтιтut de Paléontologie Humaine in France. A nearly complete…
Melting ice in norway reveals fragments of the world’s only known Viking Age packhorse net
Archaeologists have found new fragments of what is thought to be the world’s sole surviving Viking Age packhorse net, adding to a groundbreaking discovery first unearthed over…
Rare gold coin of Queen Berenice II unearthed in Jerusalem’s City of David
A tiny, but extremely rare, gold coin dating back more than 2,200 years has been unearthed during an excavation within Jerusalem’s City of David National Park at…
Genetic mutation in key enzyme may explain why humans survived while Neanderthals went extinct
A minor genetic difference in one of the enzymes may have helped separate modern humans from Neanderthals and Denisovans, our closest extinct relatives, and may have even…
Human hair khipus reveal Inca record-keeping was used by both elites and commoners
A recently studied 500-year-old Inca khipu (Quipu) has overturned ᴀssumptions about who created these intricate thread-based documents. The study, published in Science Advances, suggests that khipus—formerly thought…
Ancient human relatives transported stones 2.6 million years ago, rewriting human history
Archaeologists excavating in southwestern Kenya have uncovered strong evidence that early hominins were transporting stones over long distances about 2.6 million years ago—hundreds of thousands of years…
3,000-year-old hymn reveals musical links across Bronze Age civilizations from India to the Mediterranean
More than 3,000 years ago, in the port city of Ugarit on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, the scribes inscribed a song in the Hurrian language…
First confirmed artifacts from Emperor Nintoku’s 5th-century tomb in Japan
For the first time since the late 19th century, artifacts believed to originate from the Daisen Kofun burial mound, traditionally regarded as the tomb of Emperor Nintoku,…
40,000 Celtic artifacts and rare bronze warrior figurine unearthed at Manching in Bavaria
Archaeologists have completed a three-year excavation at the Celtic oppidum of Manching in Bavaria and uncovered more than 40,000 artifacts that provide new information on life in…