Latest Archaeology News & Discoveries

Ancient DNA From Iberian Newborns Reveals 600 Years of Genetic Stability Before Roman Rule

7,000-Year-Old Headless Skeleton Mystery in Slovakia May Not Be Evidence of a Neolithic Massacre

Stonehenge Mystery Deepens as Study Suggests Humans Hauled a Six-Ton Stone 435 Miles Across Britain

40,000 Years of Human History Uncovered in One Spanish Cave

Ancient Glass Bottle Found in York May Be the First Egyptian Kohl Container Ever Discovered in Roman Britain

Ancient Mass Grave Reveals Respiratory Disease Affected Most Children Nearly 5,000 Years Ago

Ancient Neanderthal Teeth Reveal Europe’s Hidden Evolutionary Diversity 250,000 Years Ago

Ancient Panama’s Mysterious Green Gems Finally Identified as Colombian Emeralds After 1,000 Years

Scientists Uncover Evidence That a Man Buried in Finland Crossed the North Atlantic Centuries Ago

Ancient DNA Reveals Neolithic Europeans Lived in ‘Patchwork Families’ More Than 5,000 Years Ago

Scientists Extract DNA From 1,300-Year-Old Manuscripts Without Damaging Rare Parchments

Neanderthals May Have Practiced Dentistry 59,000 Years Ago, Fossil Tooth Suggests

Study Finds Early Humans May Have Relied on Portable Containers as Far Back as 500,000 Years Ago

1.6 Million-Year-Old Bones Reveal Early Homo Were Skilled Meat Foragers, Not Just Scavengers

Neanderthals May Have Turned Rhino Teeth Into Tough Tools for Stoneworking

DNA Solves a 166-Year Mystery From the Doomed Franklin Expedition With Four New Identifications

Ancient Scottish Crannog Revealed as 5,000-Year-Old Engineered Island Older Than Stonehenge

Scotland’s Oldest Dental Bridge Found on Medieval Man’s Jaw Was Made of 20-Carat Gold

Scientists Discover 10,000 Year Old Remains of the First Atlantic Coastal Settlers

Archaeologists Discover the Early Origins of Hackbronze in a Late Roman Grave

Archaeologists Discover the Face of an Ancient Roman Fugitive Fleeing the AD 79 Eruption

Archaeologists Discover 13000 Year Old Crystal Spears Engineered with Mathematical Precision

Ancient DNA Reveals the Southern Cone Was a Dynamic Crossroads of Migrating Human Lineages for 6,000 Years

Scientists Used Light To Summon Ghost Text From 1,500 Year Old Parchment

Scientists Discovered the Ancient Networking Secret That Saved Humans but Failed Neanderthals

This 2,200 Year Old Shipwreck Was Hidden Inside a High Tech Wax Shield

Scientists Found a Biological Time Machine Inside 1,600 Year Old Roman Latrines

Spanish River Valley Unearths 700,000 Year Old Secrets of Early Humans

Ancient Bone Dust Reveals Neanderthals Were Much Better Hunters Than We Thought

Archaeologists Found a Greek Masterpiece Hidden Inside a 1600 Year Old Mummy