Breathing in the past: How museums can use biomolecular archaeology to bring ancient scents to life
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Cover Stories
CT scans unwrap secrets of ancient Egyptian life
Keck Medicine of USC scans and analyzes two Egyptian mummies to reveal new details about their lifespans, health and life experiences.
Seeing the Invisible: How Aerial LiDAR Is Revealing Lost Archaeological Sites
How remote sensing in archaeology and aerial LiDAR are helping researchers find lost cities and ancient infrastructure without disturbing sites.
Ancient DNA reveals 12,000-year-old case of rare genetic disease
Study reports the earliest genetic diagnosis in humans and provides new insight into rare diseases in prehistory.
What History and Biology Reveal About Why Faces Change Over Time
Human evolution is as much about the human face as it is about brain expansion, bipedalism, hand evolution, and other anatomical features of the human body.
Xigou site discovery challenges long-held views on early human technology in East Asia
Unlocking the sacred landscape of Roman Nida
International research team secures over €1 million to study newly uncovered Roman cult district.
Early use of wooden tools by hominins
World’s oldest rock art holds clues to early human migration to Australia
A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the archaeologists’ previous discovery in the same region by 15,000 years or...
New 2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus fossil reshapes understanding of early hominins
A partial lower jaw discovered in Afar, Ethiopia expands the known geographic distribution of Paranthropus northward by 1000 km, revealing the genus to be more widespread and adaptively versatile than previously thought.
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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.
