Archaeology

Ancient cauldrons reveal 5,000-year-old menu

Ever wondered what people ate thousands of years ago? Well, scientists have just found some cool clues in really old cooking pots! A group of...

This bronze age arrowhead was made out of a meteorite

It’s sometimes hard to remember that meteorites have been hitting our planets for millions of years. And some of them are made of valuable materials...

Scientists discover 2,000-year-old Roman house in Malta

A group of scientists and students from the University of South Florida have made an exciting find in the country of Malta, located in...

How hidden details in ancient Egyptian tomb paintings are revealed by chemical imaging

The walls of ancient Egyptian tombs can teach us much about the lives of the pharaohs and their entourages. Tomb paintings showed the deceased and...

Scientists discover incredible artifacts at ancient Israeli Synagogue

A team of researchers led by University of North Carolina's Professor Jodi Magness, and Dennis Mizzi from the University of Malta, recently made an...

Why the day on Earth was 19.5 hours long for over a billion years

Scientists from the University of Toronto have found out something amazing about our Earth's history - the length of our days hasn't always been...

The female hunter: Rewriting the history of hunting and gathering

Have you ever heard that in ancient societies, men were the hunters and women were the gatherers? This idea says that while men hunted for...

Ancient human relatives ate each other? Shocking new evidence suggests so

About 1.45 million years ago, ancient humans might have been cannibals, according to a shocking new study from researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum...

Paleo-Americans hunted mastodons, mammoths and other megafauna in eastern North America 13,000 years ago

The earliest people who lived in North America shared the landscape with huge animals. On any day these hunter-gatherers might encounter a giant, snarling saber-toothed...

Scientists discover earliest bird bone flutes in Israel

A team of scientists made a remarkable discovery of prehistoric musical instruments, fashioned from bird bones.