A 5,500-year-old fossil from Colombia has scientists rethinking syphilis origins. When King Charles VIII of France occupied Naples in 1495, […]
Tag: Archaeology
This 67,800-year-old hand stencil is the world’s oldest human-made art
generative AI could never The world’s oldest art has an unintentional story to tell about human exploration. These 17,000-year-old hand […]
Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark
the wreck and the story of the wreck The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast. […]
Switching water sources improved hygiene of Pompeii’s public baths
From well to aqueduct The specific sites studied included the Stabian baths and related structures, which were built after 130 […]
We have a fossil closer to our split with Neanderthals and Denisovans
The Casablanca fossils are about the same age as hominin fossils from Spain, which belong to a species called Homo […]
Earliest African cremation was 9,500 years ago
Archaeologists have discovered Africa’s oldest known cremation pyre at the base of Mount Hora in Malawi. According to a paper […]
Parasites plagued Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall
It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the […]
This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires
We didn’t start the fire. (Neanderthals did, at least 400,000 years ago.) This artist’s impression shows what the fire at […]
Pompeii construction site confirms recipe for Roman concrete
Back in 2023, we reported on MIT scientists’ conclusion that the ancient Romans employed “hot mixing” with quicklime, among other […]
3D model shows small clans created Easter Island statues
Skip to content Study: Moai were created by small, decentralized working groups, not managed by one central “chieftain.” Credit: ArcGIS […]