17+ hour, 2+ min ago  (813+ words) More than 3,000 graves now define a Roman burial ground beneath Zadar, Croatia's oldest continuously inhabited city, used for nearly 500 years. That concentration of tombs redraws the city as a place where centuries of daily life unfolded directly above a long,…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (776+ words) Researchers have uncovered a cluster of rock-cut tombs in Aswan, a city in southern Egypt along the Nile River, dating back more than 4,000 years. One chamber contained about 160 well-preserved pottery vessels. The discovery shows that this burial site remained active…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago  (862+ words) A sudden fire can destroy a village, but in rare cases, it can also protect history. Around 3,500 years ago, a Bronze Age settlement called Cabezo Redondo in present-day Spain faced such a fire. While homes and workshops burned, the same…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (738+ words) A 2,850-year-old grave in Serbia has revealed a massacre that deliberately targeted women and children rather than wiping out a single local group. That pattern reframes the killing as an attempt to dismantle communities at their core, not just defeat…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (811+ words) A new study has found that people in ancient Vietnam were blackening their teeth with an iron-rich paste at least 2,000 years ago. The finding turns one of the region's most striking beauty customs from inference into direct evidence of identity,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (935+ words) For years, one site in southern Chile has shaped how we think about the first people in the Americas. The site sat at the center of a big idea: humans reached South America earlier than once believed, long before the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (881+ words) A new study is reshaping how scientists think about one of humanity's most important hunting tools. The bow and arrow " long assumed to spread slowly across western North America " now appears to have arrived almost all at once " about 1,400 years…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (817+ words) What people ate thousands of years ago can sometimes be traced in the most unlikely place " the burnt food stuck to ancient cooking pots. A new study shows that Stone Age meals often blended fish with berries, seeds, and other…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (1192+ words) Long before people made pottery or planted fields, someone sat down with a bit of clay and shaped it into something meant to be worn. Not a bowl. Not a tool. An ornament." Even more surprising, some of the makers…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (20+ words) These U.S. Islands Were A Key Asset For Decades, Then They Got Sealed Off To Humans Forever Archives'Earth.com...