Maritime archaeologists have just pulled a 600-year-old giant from the seabed: the biggest medieval cargo ship ever discovered. Named Svaelget 2, this 92-foot monster could haul...
Archaeologists in Bahrain have just discovered an extraordinarily rare ceramic mask depicting a human face inside a 3,300-year-old tomb. The delicate artifact, only the second of...
Archaeologists just uncovered the oldest direct proof that humans tipped arrows with poison. Tiny stone points from South Africa, dated to 60,000 years ago, still carry...
Ancient Pompeii’s drinking water and bathwater contained dangerous levels of heavy metals years before Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, and new scientific evidence shows those...