Archaeology

Archaeology

Let’s learn about ancient technology

Ancient people didn’t have the internet. Instead, they performed surgeries, made weapons and built monuments with wood, stones, rope and fire.

Archaeology

Women like Mulan didn’t need to go to war in disguise

Female skeletons in Mongolia show injuries like those of fighting men — evidence that they could be warriors, too.

Humans

Let’s learn about early humans

Homo sapiens are the last member left of our genus. But many other species of early humans existed before us.

Archaeology

Underground mega-monument found near Stonehenge

Archaeologists used high-tech tools to uncover ancient underground pits near Stonehenge. The find may offer insights into Britain’s Stone Age culture.

Archaeology

Scientists Say: Archaeology

People leave things where they’ve been — old buildings, trash heaps and human skeletons. Archaeology is the study of those left-behind things.

Archaeology

Let’s learn about mummies

A mummy is a preserved body. They’re fun and spooky, but also a great chance to learn about people of the past.

Archaeology

This cave hosted the oldest known human remains in Europe

Bone fragments, tools and other finds in Bulgaria suggest that Homo sapiens moved rapidly into Eurasia as early as 46,000 years ago.

Archaeology

3-D printing helps resurrect an ancient Egyptian mummy’s voice

A 3-D printed mold of a mummy’s vocal tract reveals what the mummy may sound like today.

Archaeology

Ancient Egyptian mummy tattoos come to light

A range of markings discovered on female mummies are challenging ideas about tattoo traditions in ancient Egypt.

Archaeology

Scientists Say: Mummy

Mummies are dead bodies that don’t rot. They can form under natural conditions or because of chemicals that stop decay.

Humans

DNA reveals clues to the Siberian ancestors of the first Americans

Researchers discovered a previously unknown population of Ice Age people who crossed the Asia-North America land bridge.

Humans

New forensic technique may better gauge age at death

An 18-year-old student from Ackworth, England, has come up with a better way to estimate the age at death for many human remains. It needs only a CT scan of the skull.