Today, archaeologists are still debating just how old the hoard is—and what it tells us about the end of the Roman Empire in Britain
Scientists have little doubt that Stonehenge functioned as a Neolithic cemetery
Shrouded in mystery, the Temple of Garni offers a rare glimpse into pre-Christian Caucasia
A ground-breaking scientific technique is tracing the life of one of the bog bodies of Northern Europe
The genome of an infant from Upward Sun River, Alaska offers tantalizing insight into the story of human migration
By all accounts, Roman gladiators were the rock stars of their day, performing in a packed coliseum to a crowd of thousands
Either due to conquest or simply the ravages of time, these founding papers of civilizations around the world will remain mysteries forever
A scientist recreates a Stone Age funeral pyre using nothing but resources from that era. The makeshift pyre achieves same temperatures as a crematorium
A traveling Smithsonian exhibition explores the legacy of Indigenous peoples in the Greater Antilles and their contemporary heritage movement
There's plenty of evidence to suggest that a mass grave discovered in the north of England is a gladiator cemetery
After 200 years, the sad story of Qurna, a so-called 'village of looters', is coming to a close
For a long time, Japanese anthropologists and officials tried to bury the Ainu. It didn't work
A show opening at the Sackler dramatizes the various meanings that the people of Egypt once associated with cats
A remarkably preserved 49,000-year-old skeleton shows that Neanderthal kids may have grown slowly, like us
An Iraqi archaeologist braved ISIS snipers and booby-trapped ruins to rescue cultural treasures in the city and nearby legendary Nineveh and Nimrud
Meet the intrepid teenagers and teenagers-at-heart who swelter in the heat hunting for fossils
100,000 years ago, giant sloths, wombats and cave hyenas roamed the world. What drove them all extinct?
Everything from early human skulls to priceless taxidermy relics will be on display in the ark-shaped museum
In a new book on the archaeology and chemistry of alcoholic beverages, Patrick McGovern unravels the history of boozing
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