Ancient History
Paleontologists Unearth 4 Dinosaur Species Near Moab — One May Be New to Science
At a newly discovered site in southeastern Utah's Morrison Formation, paleontologists have identified fossils from four distinct dinosaur species — including one that may never have been seen before.
Caracol’s 1,700-Year-Old Royal Tomb Is Dismantling What We Knew About the Maya
Deep in Belize's Chiquibul forest, the ancient Maya metropolis of Caracol has spent decades handing archaeologists evidence that contradicts nearly…
,000-Year-Old Saqqara Tomb With Three Sealed Sarcophagi Defied Looters
A new Saqqara excavation has uncovered a 4,000-year-old Middle Kingdom tomb built for a high-ranking official, complete with three sealed…
How a Baltimore Hairdresser Cracked an Ancient Roman Hairstyle Mystery
Classical scholars had insisted Rome's towering braided hairstyles had to be wigs — until a Baltimore hairdresser with no archaeology…
Utah Geologists Excavate What May Be North America’s Oldest Cretaceous Bonebed
The Utah Geological Survey has begun excavating a dinosaur bonebed dating back 138 to 141 million years on a Utah…
Cleopatra Lived 500 Years Closer to the Moon Landing Than to the Pyramids
When you run the actual numbers, Cleopatra sat more than 500 years closer in time to the Apollo 11 Moon…
World’s Oldest Shipwreck May Have Been Found — 4,700 Years Old
A wooden cargo vessel discovered in the sheltered waters off Kekova Island, Turkey has been dated to between 4,400 and…
Karahantepe’s 11,000-Year-Old Carvings Are Rewriting Stone Age History
A cluster of Stone Age sites in southeastern Turkey — including Karahantepe and Göbekli Tepe — has produced sky burials,…
She Spent Three Weeks Digging in Greece — Here’s What No Textbook Teaches
Aspiring archaeologist Naomi Lyon spent three weeks sieving Bronze Age soil near Pylos, Greece — and her experience reveals what…
2,000 Years Sealed in Ash: AI Is Now Reading Herculaneum’s Buried Scrolls
When Vesuvius buried Herculaneum's Villa of the Papyri in 79 AD, it carbonized roughly 1,800 scrolls into unreadable black cylinders.…