8+ hour, 34+ min ago   (842+ words) Plans for a major new airport in central Poland have been put on hold due to the discovery of a slice of human history in the construction path that stretches back roughly 7,000 years. What lies beneath the future runway matters…...

13+ hour, 8+ min ago   (789+ words) A creature with enormous eyes hid for centuries beneath a Spanish city and appeared in a forgotten Roman mine dating back 2,000 years The Carmona isopod, a new species named Baeticoniscus carmonaensis, turned up in a 2,000-year-old Roman water mine beneath…...

13+ hour, 20+ min ago   (879+ words) A new analysis of wool clothing on human remains from Pompeii is reviving the debate over what the weather was like when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE. The findings hint that the city may not have been caught in the…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (844+ words) The Montelirio bead assemblage holds about 270,000 beads in a Copper Age tomb near Seville, Spain, marking buried women as elites. The find represent the largest single-burial collection of beads ever found. Researchers tracked how those beads were made and placed,…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (819+ words) Microscopic feather fragments recovered from a 9,000-year-old burial in Bad D'rrenberg, Germany, provide the clearest evidence yet of a decorated ceremonial headdress used in a shamanic burial ritual. By returning to the grave pit with modern methods, archaeologists show how…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (838+ words) A smart, new invention called the Conservation Soft Box is a low-cost enclosure designed to protect mummies and bones found in harsh museum storage conditions. In La Paz, Bolivia, curators faced microbial damage, and an Italian research group built the…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (787+ words) Human skulls and bones are increasingly sold online, exploiting a legal boundary that ends protection after 100 years. Those gaps make it easier for skulls to move around the world as home decorations, and harder for buyers to know whose body…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (811+ words) An archaeological excavation at U'akl" H'y'k uncovered the remains of at least seven infants placed beside a monumental structure, rather than inside formal burial pits. Archaeologists from Italy and Turkey led the work on the Anatolian plateau, where the deaths…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (791+ words) Scientists have found remnants of a massive stone wall completely submerged along the coast of France. The Sein Island stone structures include a 394-foot granite wall now sitting under Atlantic water near Brittany, France, longer than a football field. Marine…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (844+ words) Evidence from the Luulityn Toirom paleolake shows the Gobi Desert in Mongolia supported human life about 8,000 years ago. It matters because it connects climate swings, lake growth and collapse, and everyday toolmaking to survival in an extreme landscape. Sediment layers…...