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Cover Stories
Modern forensic methods reveal human sacrifice in ancient Egypt
Reinvestigating First Dynasty mass burials finds evidence for fatal blunt force trauma on 39% of skulls.
Ancient tools reveal how Ice Age humans learned the land
Study of projectile points offers clues about how knowledge shaped early human behavior.
Best Archaeological Sites in Japan
New study reveals Bronze Age mobility across ancient Greece
Archaeology teaching videos: keep evidence in the lesson
Mammoth Hunters: A New Makeover?
Research at Central and Eastern European sites is suggesting a radically different paradigm in Paleolithic mammoth hunting and economy.
Ground-edged stone tools in Neolithic North China
Teaching Archaeology at Home: A Dig an Archaeologist Would Recognize
Symbol of military elite authority discovered in a 3,600-year-old kurgan in Keshikchidagh, Azerbaijan
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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.
