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Cover Stories
What Ancient Board Games Reveal About Everyday Life
The Quiet Enemy of Heritage: Dust, Housekeeping, and the Long History of Keeping Floors Clean
What Lies Beneath the Lawn: Caring for Grassed Archaeological Sites Without Disturbing the Past
Ancient DNA reveals where English, German and Scandinavian languages came from
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen trace the origins of Germanic languages back 4,000 years and reshape our understanding of Viking ancestry.
Alexander the Great: Was He Really Buried in Alexandria?
Reconsidering the Fate of Alexander’s Body and the Origins of the Alexandrian Burial Narrative.
The hidden histories inside archaeological objects
How isotope science reveals where ancient materials came from and how people used them.
Ancient Egyptian tomb shows how burial trends changed over hundreds of years
Studying past landscapes to understand the adaptation of early Homo sapiens
Ancient DNA in the Neanderthal Mirror
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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.
