archeology
Your expressive face tells the story of human evolution — conveying emotion was essential
There are reasons you look the way you do.
The human brain doubled in power, very suddenly, 200,000 years ago. Why?
A long-ridiculed theory about humankind's early leap of consciousness is revived.
Ancient Egyptian sarcophagus to be opened on live TV this weekend
The artifact will be opened on Sunday, for the first time in millennia, at an undisclosed location in Egypt.
Vikings unwittingly made their swords stronger by trying to imbue them with spirits
They didn't know it, but the rituals of Iron Age Scandinavians turned their iron into steel.
Herodotus’ mystery vessel turns out to have been real
Archeologists had been doubtful since no such ship had ever been found.
The mystery behind Minoan bull-leaping
Did a poorly understood ancient civilization somersault over charging bulls?
Famous fossil is not an Archaeopteryx feather after all
Lasers solve the mystery of the missing quill.
Found: Kweneng, a pre-colonial city in South Africa
Hi-tech imaging again reveals a hidden chapter of human history.
Solved? The mystery of the Easter Island statues.
They're positioned as they are for a good reason.
Why the Nazis were obsessed with finding the lost city of Atlantis
The Nazis actively searched for Atlantis, seeing it as important to their mythology.
Archaeologists unearth dozens of mummified cats in Egypt
Dozens of mummified cats were dug up this week. This isn't as shocking as you might think.