Recent archaeological finds shed more light on fate of America’s historic “lost colony”
Multiple archaeological sites have revealed new clues to where the first British colonists went after abandoning their main settlement on Roanoke Island, North Carolina.
Bison engravings in Spanish caves reveal a common art culture across ancient Europe
Study finds ancient Gravettian art culture much more widespread than thought.
Texas A&M expert: New clues revealed about Clovis people
A study by professor Michael Waters shows that tools made by some of North America's earliest inhabitants were made only during a 300-year period.
When Rome Burned
Through historical records and archaeology, author Anthony Barrett relates a detailed accounting of the Great Fire of Rome and how it profoundly changed the empire’s history.
Ancient Maya built sophisticated water filters
Maya imported zeolite and quartz to filter drinking water.
Environmental changes impacted human evolution in East Africa, suggest scientists
A drill core provides evidence of a fluctuating environment that paralleled a transitional period in human evolution in the Olorgesailie Basin, Kenya.
When good governments go bad
History shows that societies collapse when leaders undermine social contracts.
6,500-year-old copper workshop uncovered in the Negev Desert’s Beer Sheva
Tel Aviv University and Israel Antiquities Authority believe copper-producing technology was closely guarded secret.
Anglo-Saxon warlord found by detectorists could redraw map of post-Roman Britain
First burial of its kind in mid-Thames region suggests it was more important than previously thought.
Modern humans reached westernmost Europe 5,000 years earlier than previously known
Discovery may indicate modern humans and Neanderthals lived in the area concurrently.
Exploring the Roots of Modern Human Behavior
An interview with renowned pioneering archaeologist Christopher Henshilwood on his discoveries related to the origin of behaviorally modern humans.
