6 Lessons Ancient Kids Taught Us
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Cover Stories
7 Impossible Feats Required To Move Ancient Temples
Moving ancient temples requires complex logistics. Precise surveying. Safe access. Stabilized lifts. Learn the 7 feats to relocate heritage sites today.
Phanagoria Emerges as the Birthplace of Winemaking in Russia
Remains at Home
Through burial practice, the living create, affirm, and transform social relationships with those who have passed.
How AI Is Changing Genealogy and Bringing Old Family Records to Life
Is Türkiye’s Megalithic Archaeological Site Göbeklitepe a Temple?
Ancient Egyptian tomb shows how burial trends changed over hundreds of years
Placement of mummies in a Theban tomb – from individual placement to stacking of bodies – shows how burial practices and their symbolic implications changed over time.
How to Present Archaeological Research Findings
Austronesian painting tradition may have preceded Neolithic pottery
Pelvis morphology of Neanderthals and modern humans
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Other Stories
Research reveals ancient Maya lessons on surviving drought
Huge variety of plant foods made their starvation unlikely.
Nits on ancient mummies shed light on South American ancestry
New technique means head lice can provide clues about ancient people and migration.
Scientists digitally ‘unwrap’ mummy of pharaoh Amenhotep I for the first time in 3,000 years
Study shows that 21st dynasty restorers ‘lovingly restored’ mummy, dispelling theory that they were bent on reusing old royal burial equipment.
New dates for Viking trade
Solar flare throws light on ancient trade between the Islamic Middle East and the Viking Age.
Humans Reached Remote North Atlantic Islands Centuries Earlier Than Thought
Faroes Settled Well Before Vikings Arrived, Lake Sediments Show.
Mystery solved: Footprints from site A at Laetoli, Tanzania, are from early humans, not bears
Findings provide conclusive evidence that multiple species of hominins co-existed on the landscape.
Volcanic eruptions contributed to collapse of China dynasties
Eruptions create sulfuric acid clouds in the upper atmosphere and can cool the climate.
A Child of darkness
The first partial skull of a child of Homo naledi begins to give us insight into all stages of life of this remarkable species.
More than ceremonial, ancient Chaco Canyon was home, new study says
Early puebloans impacted the ecosystem around Chaco Canyon earlier than previously believed.
