2+ hour, 56+ min ago  (632+ words) A stone in an English forest caught a student's attention. What he noticed led experts to investigate the site more closely. A single stone standing in a quiet Derbyshire forest did not seem remarkable at first. One student's doubt changed…...

2+ hour, 11+ min ago  (548+ words) A professor of anthropology explores how early hominids ate prehistoric elephants to survive. Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant (which can weigh up to 6, 000kg [13, 000 lbs]). This was Elephas (Paleoxodon) recki, a prehistoric titan that…...

3+ hour, 26+ min ago  (490+ words) Beneath layers of rock and sand, a vast cave has quietly recorded human activity across millennia. Researchers are only now starting to uncover what it reveals. Hidden beneath Saudi Arabia's desert, lava tube caves are revealing traces of human life…...

4+ hour, 39+ min ago  (443+ words) Located in central Israel, Tinshemet Cave has produced an exceptional collection of archaeological and human remains. Among the most important discoveries are several human burials, the first mid-Middle Palaeolithic (MP) burials uncovered in more than fifty years. These finds are…...

16+ hour, 55+ min ago  (834+ words) For centuries, historians treated Homer's Iliad as literature. A beautiful story about gods, heroes, and a woman beautiful enough to launch a thousand ships to sea. Helen, Achilles, the wooden horse. Fiction. Myth. Poetry. But beneath a hill in northwestern…...

6+ hour, 11+ min ago  (241+ words) Artefact was made of a particular blend of metal that would have been extremely difficult for the ancient people to create on Earth The archaeological site of Sanxingdui in southwest China's Sichuan province has yielded remarkable discoveries, including insights recently…...

6+ hour, 43+ min ago  (1052+ words) Beneath a contemporary street in southern Rome, researchers have discovered an undiscovered collection of Roman tombs, replete with surviving painted artwork and symbolic images. A change in how humans commemorated death throughout time is captured by the discovery, which reveals…...

1+ hour, 36+ min ago  (306+ words) Residue of local plants and imported aromatics were found in two braziers discovered within Pompeii and the surrounding area, according to a new study, confirming the city's role as part of Rome's global trade network." The complete findings were published…...

6+ hour, 32+ min ago  (422+ words) The oldest ruins of the ancient Egyptian city of Buto, dating to approximately 2, 600 years ago, have been rediscovered by archaeologists testing new technology meant to aid in locating structures buried deep beneath the surface. The complete findings were published in…...

6+ hour, 51+ min ago  (254+ words) Above ground, Uzbekistan's capital, Tashkent, stretches out in broad avenues edged with chinar trees. Descend the marble steps through an unassuming concrete entrance, and the city opens into a metro station that feels like an immersive passage through a subterranean…...