Research

Gold rush in Korea’s graves: Eunsun-ri & Dogye-ri tombs yield ornaments and pottery

The tomb groups span about 2 square kilometers in Yeongwon-myeon and include more than 270 tombs.

Gold jewelry excavated from the ancient tombs of Eunseon-ri and Dogye-ri.
The reconstructed skull of a man who died 12,000 years ago in what is now Vietnam.

A 12,000-year-old cold case: is this earliest murder recorded in Southeast Asia?

A life reconstruction of Spicomellus afer.

Unearthed in Morocco's Atlas Mountains: a 165-million-year-old 'porcupine' dinosaur

A 3D printed and painted reconstruction of a Kostensuchus Atrox skeleton.

Meet Kostensuchus Atrox, a land-stalking crocodile cousin from late Cretaceous Argentina


Neanderthal diversity: Iberian Neanderthals handled the dead with cave deposits, not graves

Archaeological study reveals systematic accumulations of Neanderthal remains in Iberian caves, indicating intentional mortuary practices distinct from burial traditions documented in other regions.

Maltravieso Cave replica with Neanderthals four fingers hand-prints.

1.8 million-year-old human jawbone discovered in Georgia; a key ‘to Eurasia's first colonies’

The Orozmani site, 100 kilometers from Tbilisi, contains layers dated 1.77-1.84 million years old and could reveal the lifestyle of Eurasia's first human colonies outside Africa.

1.8 million year old human jawbone found in Georgia.

8,500-year-old village frozen in time: rising seas reveal a rare archaeological site in Denmark

€13.2 million EU-funded project recovers artifacts from submerged Mesolithic settlement, preserved in oxygen-free sediments after rapid sea level rise forced ancient communities inland.

Aarhus Bay.

Skulls for sale: inside the shocking legal void fueling Britain’s black market in human remains

Instagram sellers. Grave robbers. Gothic collectors. And a law that says almost nothing.

Illustration: Mummified Skulls From Grave Robbed Cemetery, Peru.

How the world won’t be destroyed: NASA found a solution to a worrying problem

NASA proved for the first time that a small spacecraft can deflect an asteroid. The DART mission collided with Dimorphos, showing humanity can protect itself from cosmic disasters.

The spacecraft is on its way to crash into the asteroid’s moon

Oldest human hybrid? 140,000-year-old skull could rewrite human evolution

Is this ancient child proof that Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals mixed far earlier than we thought?

Prof. Israel Hershkovitz.

Beheaded by colonizers, buried by descendants: France finally returns skull of Malagasy King Toera

A symbol of brutal colonialism comes home after more than a century.

Illustration: Flags of France and Madagascar.

180-million-year-old ‘crocodile’ fossil unearthed in Indian desert village

Jaisalmer district administration has fenced off the area to safeguard the fossil collection from damage.

Artist’s rendering of Phytosaurs

Scientists rebuild ancient south indian faces - and discover traces of Middle Eastern ancestry

The first facial reconstructions from Keeladi hint at forgotten migrations and surprising diversity.

Facial reconstruction of the face of a 2500-year-old skull found in excavations at Kondgai.

Only the second of its kind: what this ancient seal reveals about Yaroslav the Wise

Experts are calling it one of the oldest Russian seals ever found.

On both sides of the seal, Saint George is represented with a lance and a shield.

Mystery at Petralona Cave: 286,000-year-old skull near Thessaloniki upends the human family tree

Buried for hundreds of thousands of years, the Petralona cranium finally reveals its ancient secret.

The Petralona skull.