2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (419+ words) Around 1590 BCE — more than 800 years before Rome was founded, and before Tutankhamun was even born — a small number of people in what is now southeastern Poland started eating a cereal that had never grown in their fields. It wasn’t a…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (215+ words) Together, they recovered more than 1,500 archaeological and paleontological remains this season alone — stone tools and animal bones that are reshaping what’s known about how Neanderthal groups lived on Spain’s northern plateau roughly 46,000 years ago, deep in the Late Pleistocene. For…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (711+ words) A project from the University of Udine combines drones, magnetic sensors, and surface surveys to map for the first time the vast lower city of the ancient metropolis, where the non-elite population lived. For nearly two centuries, archaeologists excavating Nimrud,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1163+ words) A global study suggests that climate change was not the main cause of Neanderthal extinction and points to competition with Homo sapiens as the determining factor. An international team of researchers has published a study that questions one of the…...