Archaeology

Archaeology

This prehistoric woman from Peru hunted big game

Women in the Americas speared large prey as early as 9,000 years ago, new archaeological evidence suggests.

Archaeology

See what these animal mummies are keeping under wraps

A new method of 3-D scanning mummified animals reveals life and death details of a snake, a bird and a cat that lived in ancient Egypt.

Archaeology

Stonehenge enhanced voices and music within the stone ring

Scientists built a 'Stonehenge Lego' model in a sound chamber to study how sound would have behaved in the ancient stone circle.

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.