Stone Age animal engravings in Namibian caves guided Indigenous trackers over time By Laura Baisas / Sep 14, 2023
1,000-year-old mummy with full head of hair and intact jaw found in Peru By Laura Baisas / Sep 8, 2023
An ‘ancestral bottleneck’ took out nearly 99 percent of the human population 800,000 years ago By Laura Baisas / Aug 31, 2023
Pompeii’s archaeological puzzles can be solved with a little help from chemistry By Laura Baisas / Aug 23, 2023
Bronze Age cauldrons show we’ve always loved meat, dairy, and fancy cookware By Laura Baisas / Aug 18, 2023
Japan’s Hirota people intentionally reshaped their skulls more than 1,000 years ago By Laura Baisas / Aug 16, 2023
Michigan State students help unearth a 19th-century space observatory on campus By Laura Baisas / Aug 16, 2023
Ceramic pipes kept this town from flooding during monsoons 4,000 years ago By Laura Baisas / Aug 14, 2023
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How Scotland forged a rare alliance between amateur treasure hunters and archaeologists By Andrew Curry
Ask Us Anything Viagra and the abortion pill can treat multiple illnesses. But how? By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira
Dinosaurs These toothy vegetarian dinosaurs have eluded paleontologists in Europe for decades By Laura Baisas
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Dinosaurs Museums are filled with fake dinosaur fossils. See what it takes to make those replicas. By Riley Black , Theo Stroomer
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