The Inca Empire’s system of roads were built on centuries-old trade routes. This large, elaborate Ychsma funerary bundle features a […]
Tag: Archaeology
An unlikely set of clues helps reconstruct ancient Chinese disasters
Shang Dynasty oracle bones and modern weather models feature in the same study. This diorama at Xinxiang City Museum, Henan […]
Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans
The results: The team found traces of wild grasses and legumes, fruits or berries, green vegetables, and roots and tubers […]
“Million-year-old” fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans
careful with that, it’s an antique The revised age may help make sense of 2-million-year-old stone tools elsewhere in China. […]
Museums incorporate “scent of the afterlife” into Egyptian exhibits
Her team’s analysis of the residue samples contained beeswax, plant oils, animal fats, bitumen, and resins from coniferous trees such […]
The origin story of syphilis goes back far longer than we thought
A 5,500-year-old fossil from Colombia has scientists rethinking syphilis origins. When King Charles VIII of France occupied Naples in 1495, […]
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 […]