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

New light on contested identity of medieval skeleton found at Prague Castle

Here’s how early humans evaded immunodeficiency viruses

CryoEM reveals structural effect of mutation that made humans, but not apes, immune to SIV.

20-million-year-old skull suggests complex brain evolution in monkeys, apes

New study reveals that brain enlargement and modern features evolved repeatedly in anthropoids.

Nordic Bronze Age attracted wide variety of migrants to Denmark

Results of largest Denmark multidisciplinary human mobility investigation to date.

A Stone Age boat building site has been discovered underwater

Biomolecular analyses of Roopkund skeletons show Mediterranean migrants in Indian Himalaya

The lake was thought to be the site of an ancient catastrophic event that left several hundred people dead, but the first ancient whole genome data from India shows that diverse groups of people...

Humans migrated to Mongolia much earlier than previously believed

Archaeologists unearth stone tools made 45,000 years ago.

Ancient feces reveal how ‘marsh diet’ left Bronze Age Fen folk infected with parasites

Neanderthals commonly suffered from ‘swimmer’s ear’

Uncovering Zedekiah’s Destroyed City

New archaeological finds uncovered from two separate excavations in 2019 likely support the biblical account of the destruction of Jerusalem and its First Temple in 587/586 BCE.

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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.