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Scientists recently found the planet's longest continuously occupied termite colony in an arid region of South Africa. It dates to the time of the Neanderthals. Last month, Michele Francis, an [...]

Scientists recently found the planet’s longest continuously occupied termite colony in an arid region of South Africa. It dates to the time of the Neanderthals. Last month, Michele Francis, an [...]

Byline: Franz Lidz The dodo was a flightless bird about the size of a male turkey that had a long, hooked beak and the goofy charm of an emperor penguin. [...]

The dodo was a flightless bird about the size of a male turkey that had a long, hooked beak and the goofy charm of an emperor penguin. Its ancestor first [...]

Byline: Franz Lidz We tend to think of scribes as being in the mold of Bartleby the Scrivener, the eponymous Wall Street law clerk in Herman Melville's 1853 short story. [...]

Byline: Franz Lidz A six-ton megalith at the heart of the archaeological site traveled more than 450 miles to get there, a new study concludes. Near the center of the [...]

A new translation of cuneiform relics from the second millennium B.C. highlights the warnings that astrologers saw in eclipses. It was good to be the king in ancient Babylonia, unless, [...]

Un megalito situado en el corazón del yacimiento arqueológico recorrió más de 700 kilómetros para llegar hasta allí, según un nuevo estudio. https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaYKhdv5q08fphYVt40M Cerca del centro del monumento circular de [...]

An ancient hoard of Persian coins offers insights into the political landscape around the time of the Peloponnesian War. It is the late fifth century B.C. and a mercenary soldier [...]

An ancient hoard of Persian coins offers insights into the political landscape around the time of the Peloponnesian War. It is the late fifth century B.C. and a mercenary soldier [...]

Paint Rock, an ancient ceremonial site in Central Texas, is a sort of outdoor gallery of rock art that documents hundreds or even thousands of years of Native American heritage. [...]

Burial remains from 800-2,000 years ago hint that the First Australians may have kept the continent's famous canine species as pets. This article is part of our Pets special section [...]

About a mile beneath the sea, the ship suggests that trade in the eastern Mediterranean Sea traveled much farther from the safety of land. Remains of the oldest shipwreck ever [...]

Byline: Franz Lidz and Kobi Wolf About a mile beneath the sea, the ship suggests that trade in the eastern Mediterranean Sea traveled much farther from the safety of land. [...]

Byline: Franz Lidz On the Norwegian island of Leka, archaeologists have unearthed the earliest known ship burial in Scandinavia. For hundreds of years, Norwegians thought they knew who or what [...]

On the Norwegian island of Leka, archaeologists have unearthed the earliest known ship burial in Scandinavia. For hundreds of years, Norwegians thought they knew who or what had been interred [...]

Byline: Franz Lidz Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed. In 1836, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish antiquarian, brought the first [...]

Un análisis a lanzas y bastones de cacería de hace más de 300.000 años reveló que los neandertales eran mucho más hábiles en la fabricación de herramientas de madera de [...]

Byline: Franz Lidz In the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest, the northern spotted owl, a rare and fragile subspecies of spotted owl, is being muscled out of its limited [...]

Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed. In 1836, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish antiquarian, brought the first semblance of order [...]

In the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest, the northern spotted owl, a rare and fragile subspecies of spotted owl, is being muscled out of its limited habitat by the [...]

Byline: Franz Lidz Three millenniums ago, a small, prosperous farming community briefly flourished in the freshwater marshes of eastern England. The inhabitants lived in a clutch of thatched roundhouses built [...]

Three millenniums ago, a small, prosperous farming community briefly flourished in the freshwater marshes of eastern England. The inhabitants lived in a clutch of thatched roundhouses built on wooden stilts [...]

Byline: Franz Lidz Archaeologists have revealed a major production site for one of history's most luxurious, and smelliest, colorants. The most prized pigment of antiquity was processed not from a [...]

For 2,000 years, celestial observers mapped the heavens with astonishingly precise instruments called astrolabes, which looked like large, old-fashioned vest-pocket watches and enabled users to determine time, distance, height, latitude [...]

Archaeologists in Israel have revealed a production site for one of history's most luxurious, and smelliest, colorants. The most prized pigment of antiquity was processed not from a tangle of [...]

Byline: Franz Lidz This is a love story: During the spring of 2008, long before they produced evidence of humanity's first recorded kiss, Sophie Lund Rasmussen and Troels Pank Arboll [...]

Esta es una historia de amor: durante la primavera de 2008, mucho antes de que produjeran evidencia del primer beso registrado de la humanidad, Sophie Lund Rasmussen y Troels Pank [...]

When it came to the dicey journey to the afterlife, the more affluent citizens of ancient Egypt took no chances. In elaborate funeral ceremonies, protective spells were invoked, sarcophaguses were [...]

This is a love story: During the spring of 2008, long before they produced evidence of humanity's first recorded kiss, Sophie Lund Rasmussen and Troels Pank Arboll clasped lips in [...]

Archaeologists working in Saqqara recently unearthed three funerary masks at least 1,800 years old. Produced by Antonio de Luca and Matt McCann Photographs by EPA, via [...]

Byline: Franz Lidz and Meghan Dhaliwal The ruins of Mitla sit about 30 miles from Oaxaca in the mountains of southern Mexico, built on a high valley floor as a [...]

The ruins of Mitla sit about 30 miles from Oaxaca in the mountains of southern Mexico, built on a high valley floor as a gateway between the world of the [...]

The ruins of Mitla sit about 30 miles from Oaxaca in the mountains of southern Mexico, built on a high valley floor as a gateway between the world of the [...]

Byline: Franz Lidz A new archaeological analysis is the first to show that our human ancestors intentionally stalked large beasts of prey, and apex predators, no less. Stone Age-cartoon enthusiasts [...]

In the mid-19th century, a British antiquarian named Sir Thomas Phillipps announced his intention of owning one copy of every book in the world. A professed “vello-maniac,” Mr. Phillipps, a [...]

A new archaeological analysis is the first to show that our human ancestors intentionally stalked large beasts of prey, and apex predators, no less. Stone Age-cartoon enthusiasts will recall that [...]

Byline: Franz Lidz Paleontologists in Egypt announced the discovery of Tutcetus rayanensis, an eight-foot-long leviathan that lived 41 million years ago. In 1842, a vast, nearly intact skeleton was unearthed [...]

Paleontologists in Egypt announced the discovery of Tutcetus rayanensis, an eight-foot-long leviathan that lived 41 million years ago. In 1842, a vast, nearly intact skeleton was unearthed on a plantation [...]

Byline: Franz Lidz If reports from the time are to be believed, 17th-century Poland was awash in revenants - not vampires, exactly, but proto-zombies who harassed the living by drinking [...]

Si nos atenemos a los informes de la época, la Polonia del siglo XVII estaba plagada de renacidos, no vampiros exactamente, sino protozombis que acosaban a los vivos bebiéndose su [...]

If reports from the time are to be believed, 17th-century Poland was awash in revenants -- not vampires, exactly, but proto-zombies who harassed the living by drinking their blood or, [...]

The discovery of ancient, handcrafted ornaments revives a longstanding debate about the arrival of the earliest Americans. Of all the long-running disputes in archaeology, few roil scholars more than the [...]

The discovery of ancient, handcrafted ornaments revives a longstanding debate about the arrival of the earliest Americans. Of all the long-running disputes in archaeology, few roil scholars more than the [...]

Byline: Franz Lidz A recent study offered the 'oldest decisive evidence' that our ancient hominid ancestors ate one another. But the field has a long history of overstating such claims, [...]

A recent study offered the ''oldest decisive evidence'' that our ancient hominid ancestors ate one another. But the field has a long history of overstating such claims, other scientists note. [...]

Byline: Franz Lidz Doctors are generally held in high regard today, but Romans of the first century were skeptical, even scornful, of medical practitioners, many of whom ministered to ailments [...]