ARCHAEOLOGY

Scientific Reports, Fernando Ramirez Rozzi

Humans Might Have Practiced Brain Surgery on Cows 5000 Years Ago

The practice of drilling holes into skulls goes back millennia.

13-Year-Old Amateur Archaeologist Discovers the Buried Treasure of a Danish King

The oldest coin dates back to 714 CE.

Aaron Deter-Wolf and the Tennessee Division of Archaeology

This May Be the Oldest Tattoo Kit in the World

It was unearthed more than 30 years ago, but archaeologists have only just realized what it is.

9 'Scientific Mysteries' the Internet Loves, Debunked

Spoiler: The answer is not "aliens." It's never aliens.

An 88,000-Year-Old Middle Finger May Change What We Know About Human Migration

Humans may have left Africa sooner than we thought.

Ice Age Human Footprints in Canada Reveal a Walk on the Beach Taken 13,000 Years Ago

New evidence that early North Americans cruised the Pacific coast.

Aerial photo of site Mt05, a circular enclosure (140 meter diameter) located on a hilltop.

Part of the Amazon Thought to Be Uninhabited May Have Been Home to 1 Million People

Life in the Amazon before colonization was more bustling than previously thought.

Museum Finds 2500-Year-Old Mummy in a Sarcophagus Marked 'Empty'

After receiving the coffin in 1860, the museum finally decided to open it up last year.

8 Cemeteries Unearthed at Construction Sites

People that came before us are sometimes underfoot.

UK Archaeologists Have Found One of the World’s Oldest 'Crayons'

The red ochre pigment might have been used for art or to color animal skins.

Northwestern University/Courtesy of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the Regents of the University of California and NU-ACCESS

See Lifelike Mummy Portraits From Roman Egypt, Now at Northwestern University

The exhibit is named after an ancient piece of art criticism.

New Program Trains Dogs to Sniff Out Art Smugglers

Every year, billions of dollars in ancient artifacts and other cultural objects are looted and sold around the world. A new project is training dogs to sniff them out.

Flights Grounded After World War II Bomb Discovered Near London City Airport

Police are working on removing it from the Thames.

Archaeologists Say They May Have Found the Skeleton of the Pirate "Black Sam" Bellamy

The bones were found near Bellamy's ship, the Whydah, which wrecked off the coast of Massachusetts in 1717.

This Mass Grave in England May Hold the Skeletons of Hundreds of Viking Invaders

In the late 9th century, Vikings across Scandinavia banded together to invade England.

Local Reporter May Have Found the Burned Remains of the Last American Slave Ship

The ship arrived in Alabama in 1859 in defiance of a law that prohibited importing slaves to the U.S. To hide the evidence of its illegal venture, its captain burned and sunk the ship, and its wreck has been lost to history. Until now.

Scientists Crack the Cryptic Code of a 2000-Year-Old Dead Sea Scroll

Haifa University researchers pieced together more than 60 tiny parchment fragments to decipher the document.

©Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello

Inside the Kitchen of Thomas Jefferson's Acclaimed—and Enslaved—Chef James Hemings

Hemings learned the art of French cooking in Paris and brought haute cuisine to America.

8 Amazing Things Discovered During the Expansion of the London Underground

Europe’s largest engineering project uncovered countless historic treasures, ranging from bones to Tudor bowling balls.

Scientists Accidentally Discover Ancient Hepatitis B in a 16th-Century Mummy

They thought they were studying the earliest evidence of smallpox, but found a different disease altogether.

Illustration by Eric S. Carlson in collaboration with Ben A. Potter

11,500-Year-Old Skeleton Reveals an Unknown Group of Ancient Migrants to the Americas

The infant's genome—the oldest complete genetic profile of a New World person—reveals the existence of a human lineage that was previously unknown to scientists.

The Top 10 Science Stories of 2017

Science can't stop, won't stop.

Maritime archaeologists survey the Rouse Simmons shipwreck on the bottom of Lake Michigan.

Captain Santa’s Last Sail: The Mysterious Fate of the Christmas Tree Ship

The ship was a Christmas tradition in Chicago until one stormy night in 1912.

© Martin Rattini for Port-Au-Prince Film /Echofilm

Ötzi the Iceman Is the Star of a New Action Movie

The fictionalized account doesn't skimp on historical accuracy.

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