NatGeo’s Pompeii: Out of Time fuses historical fact and imagination to bring city’s last 24 hours to life. The sun […]
Tag: Archaeology
Check out the first images of Quest shipwreck
Back in 2024, we reported on the discovery of the Quest shipwreck, the polar exploration vessel that served Arctic explorer […]
Flores Hobbits’ eating habits offer clues about their evolutionary past
If Homo floresiensis wasn’t a fire-using hunter, its origins could be different than we thought. Komodo dragons use their venomous […]
Superworms could replace beetles for cleaning skeletal remains
Fatemeh Rastekar, Niloofar Alaei Kakhki and Morteza Monfared discuss the safe and practical utility of superworm larvae for cleaning museum […]
Every Homo naledi we know of is female, and the implications are fascinating
“There is no natural explanation,” says paleoanthropologist John Hawks. Neo, the type specimen for Homo naledi, was originally thought to […]
Hunter-gatherers in Siberia died of a plague outbreak 5,500 years ago
We can’t blame the Neolithic Transition for the plague anymore. This artist’s illustration, by Kevin Wilson, shows how the ancient […]
Did Iron Age Britons remove brains of the dead?
Postmortem manipulation in an Iron Age female Briton Credit: Rebecca Ellis-Haken Postmortem manipulation in an Iron Age female Briton Credit: […]
Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing
Please don’t lick the science What’s the difference between a person, an artifact, and an ecosystem? Sarhan holds up a […]
If I had a hammer… it might actually be a rhino tooth
One way archaeologists learn how ancient people, including Neanderthals, did things is to attempt to do those things themselves, a […]
Why cats prefer silver vine to catnip and other May highlights
Prehistoric mining in the Pyrenees, a new species of tiny blue octopus, slapstick acoustics, and more. Malachite fragments recovered during […]