A study by archaeologist Marion Dowd at Atlantic Technological University examines Ireland’s cillíní, burial grounds used for infants who were...
Anyone who has stood near an ancient Egyptian mummy notices a persistent musty odor. Researchers once linked this smell to...
Researchers have produced a detailed ecological history of southern Africa between 180,000 and 30,000 years ago and used the record...
Radiologists at Keck Medicine of USC examined two ancient Egyptian mummies using high-resolution CT scanning, producing detailed views of bodies...
A buried campsite in Alaska’s middle Tanana Valley offers fresh evidence about early human movement into North America. Excavations at...
Archaeologists working on high Andean volcanoes have identified the first clear case of deliberate mummification of a child sacrificed in...
Archaeologists working in central Spain have documented strong evidence for a long-standing Neanderthal practice focused on the collection and placement...
Read moreResearchers have identified a fatal bear mauling as the cause of death for a Gravettian teenager buried about 28,000 years...
An international research team has confirmed the earliest known genetic diagnosis in an anatomically modern human, identifying a rare skeletal...
Chemical analysis of residue inside a small Roman glass vial has produced the first direct physical evidence that human feces...
