Popular Archeology

New Light on an Etruscan Settlement: Marsiliana d’Albegna
by No Author
Excavations in Italy are uncovering finds that are expanding our knowledge of who the ancient Etruscans were and how they lived.
Before Mesa Verde
by Shirley Powell
Uncovering the beginnings of the great Pueblo culture of the American Southwest.
The Dedication of Roman Weapons and Armor in Water as a Religious Ritual
by Brandon Olson
Through chance finds, formal excavations, looting, and dredging operations, several pieces of intact, fully functional Roman weapons and armor have been recovered from aquatic contexts in Gaul and Britain dating from the first century B.C.E to late first century C.E. Some scholars have attempted to explain the phenomenon as a series of accidental losses, while ... Read more »
The Minoan Connection
by No Author
The news-making discoveries that are now emerging from this major archaeological site in Israel.
Ancient Peru: The First Cities
by Kimberly Munro
The first installment of our Ancient Peru series relates what archaeology has revealed about its first cities and civilizations.

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Cover Stories

Neanderthal genes give clues to human brain evolution

3D-printed reconstructions provide clues to ancient site

Versatility in hominin diets

New Light on the Ancient Human Populations of Patagonia

Chipped stones and cut bones show early hominin presence in North Africa

The Peopling of Earth’s “Third Pole”: The Tibetan Plateau’s Earliest Colonizers

Stone tools linked to ancient human ancestors in Arabia have surprisingly recent date

Stone handaxes, similar to those made by early humans as much as 1.5 million years ago, have been dated for the first time in the Arabian Peninsula, to less than 190,000 years old, where...

Remains of Anglo-Saxon cemetery discovered

Prehistoric cave art reveals ancient use of complex astronomy

First ancient DNA from mainland Finland reveals origins of Siberian ancestry in region

New study shows that the genetic makeup of northern Europe traces back to migrations from Siberia that began at least 3,500 years ago and that, as recently as the Iron Age, ancestors of the...

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A wooden toe: Swiss Egyptologists study 3,000-year-old prosthesis

Multispectral imaging reveals ancient Hebrew inscription undetected for over 50 years

Military correspondence from the First Temple period discovered on reverse side of well-studied artifact at The Israel Museum, Tel Aviv University researchers say.

New research reveals earliest directly dated rock paintings from southern Africa

Scientists have pioneered a technique to directly date prehistoric rock paintings in southern Africa, which revealed dates much older than previously thought.