According to the researchers, early humans, who primarily consumed large game, required fire not for cooking, but to smoke and dry meat so that it would not rot, thereby preserving it for extended ...

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In a rare and chilling discovery, archaeologists have uncovered powerful new evidence of execution and public punishment from early medieval England.

A vibrant and intricately detailed mosaic dating back over 1,600 years has been revealed to the public for the first time in Israel's western Negev.

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In a discovery rewriting the timeline of symbolic behavior in early humans, archaeologists in Spain have identified what is now considered the oldest known human fingerprint—left in ochre pigment by a ...

In a remarkable find that deepens our understanding of one of the world’s oldest civilizations, archaeologists working at the Era de Pando archaeological site in Peru’s Supe Valley have uncovered a 5, ...

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High in the cloud forests of the northeastern Peruvian Andes, where vegetation and altitude combine to conceal secrets, archaeologists have uncovered a breathtaking rediscovery: over 100 previously un ...

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Beneath the surface of present-day western Honduras lie the ruins of Copán—an archaeological site that once stood as a vital city in the classic Maya world, situated at the crossroads between Central ...

While other ancient animals seem trapped in evolutionary stasis, others were quietly in the process of revolutionary transformation.