ARCHAEOLOGY

Peek Inside Malta's Lost 19th Century Subterranean Crypt

The ossuary is believed to be fully intact underneath chapel ruins.

Skeleton of 19th-Century British Man Reveals He Wore a Corset

Medicine and fashion may have collided in this tuberculosis treatment.

Archaeological Repository Showcases New York City’s Rich History

The archive includes artifacts from all five boroughs spanning 8000 years.

Humans Feasted on Horses and Sloths in Argentina 14,000 Years Ago

The bones might help scientists reconstruct the bigger picture of how the first humans migrated through South America.

What Long-Dead Bees Can Tell Us About Our Ancestors

The presence and contents of a fossilized nest suggest that Australopithecus africanus lived in a dry, savannah-like environment.

Scientists Decipher Charred Biblical Scroll Using 'Virtual Unwrapping'

The scroll was reduced to charcoal 1400 years ago.

Scientists Discover World's Oldest-Known Fishhooks in Okinawa, Japan

The hooks are about 23,000 years old.

Archaeologists Discover Pot With 3000-Year-Old Burnt Cheese

An ancient kitchen mishap proves that culinary incompetence is timeless.

2000-Year-Old Skeleton Found at Ancient Shipwreck

Human remains are a rare find for sunken ships. Discovering a skeleton in one of the most famous shipwrecks in the world is even rarer.

The Blue in Your Blue Jeans Is at Least 6000 Years Old

Ancient Peruvians were the first in the world to dye fabric blue, beating the Egyptians to it by 1600 years.

Has the HMS Terror Shipwreck Been Found in Arctic Canada?

Parks Canada is still confirming the discovery, but all signs point to the wreck being the HMS Terror.

14 Sacred Facts About Machu Picchu

3. Spanish conquistadors never found Machu Picchu.

Did Lucy Die After Falling out of a Tree?

Some researchers see evidence of a fall in 3D reconstructions of her bones. Others are doubtful.

Irish Teeth Reveal the Chemical Signature of the Great Famine

Researchers analyzed 20 sets of human remains from one of the many workhouses where entire families were institutionalized—and made to work long hours—as a "remedy" to poverty.

Three Retirees Discover a Shipwreck From 1803 in Lake Ontario

The wreck is the second oldest ever found in the Great Lakes.

John Cooke via Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

DNA Shows Infamous ‘Piltdown Man’ Hoax Was Two Parts Human, One Part Ape

But who was behind the hoax?

Study: The First Americans Didn't Arrive by the Bering Land Bridge

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the first settlers of the Americas could only have arrived one way.

Archaeologists Find Remains of "High-Status" Women in Cahokia Burial Mound

The pre-Columbian mound had long been characterized as a testament to male power and warfare.

Sarah&Boston via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.0

340-Year-Old Cheese Recovered From Swedish Shipwreck

The stench was likened to an extra-pungent Roquefort.

Young Boy Accidentally Ruins 5000-Year-Old Stone Age Carving in Norway

The boy did "irreversible" damage while trying to make the ancient art more visible.

Have Scientists Found Evidence of the Great Flood of China?

It was one of the most cataclysmic floods on Earth in the past 10,000 years.

Irish-American College Student Finds 12th Century Brooch on Galway Beach

The piece of jewelry has been entrusted to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin.

Scientists Find the Earliest Human Cancer in a 1.7-Million-Year-Old Toe

It pushes back the date of the earliest known cancer in a human ancestor by more than a million years.

Walter Montgomery via Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

Archaeologists Find ‘New Clues’ in Search for Roanoke’s Lost Colonists

Excavations in a likely site have uncovered dozens of artifacts from the late 16th century.

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