For millennia, the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza has remained among the most enigmatic puzzles in history. Over 2.3 million stone blocks, each averaging two tons, how did an ancient civilization without modern machinery move and assemble? A long-lost branch of the Nile buried for millennia may have been the secret road used ...
Deep under the waves off Australia’s northern coast sits a lost chapter of human history that might change our knowledge of ancient migration, climate resilience, and vanished civilizations. On the submerged Northwest Sheld of Sahul, a landmass linking Australia to New Guinea tens of thousands of years ago, researchers have found the remains of a ...
For decades, the grand narratives of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley dominated the story of early human civilization, pushing Southeast Asia to the margins. But a revolutionary finding on the Philippine islands is rewriting history. One that mastered deep-sea fishing, long-distance trade, and ceremonial burials millennia before the advent of agriculture, archaeologists have found ...
Archaeologists have found an object in a quiet rock shelter in Segovia, Spain, that questions accepted wisdom regarding Neanderthal cognition: a granite pebble with a red ochre dot and a clearly identifiable Neanderthal man fingerprint. More than just an old fingerprint, this discovery dated to 43,000 years is a tantalizing clue that Neanderthals might have ...
Archaeologists have found a wealth of old secrets in the sun-baked plains of central Turkey, including a royal tomb containing the remains of a close relative of the fabled King Midas. Announced by Turkey’s Minister of Culture and Tourism Mehmet Nudi Ersoy, the finding has rocked the archaeological community with new understanding of the mysterious ...
Modern researchers have only recently started to piece together the vivid blue adorning ancient Egyptian tombs, sculptures, and jewelry over millennia. Originally created about 3100 BCE and lost to time by the Renaissance, this pigment known as Egyptian blue is the first synthetic color used in humans Now, a group of Washington State University researchers ...
Finding a 1,000-year-old Viking arm-ring made of gold, beautifully created by tying eight gold rods in a row, metal detectorist Ronald Clucas would cause waves in the field of archeology in a peaceful spring morning in 2025. The relic was discovered on the Viking trading post Isle of Man, the piece of art provides an ...
Deep in the Caucasus Mountains, a cave has yielded a discovery that shatters long-held assumptions about Neanderthals. A 9-centimeter (3.5-inch) spear tip, carved from the leg bone of a bison and hardened in fire, has been dated to 70,000–80,000 years ago making it the oldest bone weapon ever found in Europe. But what’s truly groundbreaking? ...
In an amazing turn of events, a large-scale land reclamation project in Indonesia has resurrected a lost world, rather than only sand. While workers were building off an artificial island off Java, they dragged 6,700 fossils from the seafloor, including two skull fragments of Homo erectus, our ancient human predecessors. These 140,000-year-old fossils expose a ...
New research has revealed that Homo erectus in Java persisted far longer than previously believed, possibly overlapping with early Homo sapiens. Fossil evidence suggests that the species survived in Southeast Asia until at least 108,000 years ago, significantly later than previous estimates. This discovery challenges long-standing evolutionary timelines and raises new questions about interactions between ...
