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5700 BC Burial Mound Built for One Child in Labrador
At L’Anse Amour in southern Labrador, archaeologists documented a carefully built Maritime Archaic burial mound dating...
15,500-Year-Old Stone Points Found Below Clovis
At the Debra L. Friedkin site in central Texas, archaeologists found stemmed stone points and other tools in a cultural...
4,000 Year Old Water Pipes Found in Ancient Chinese Town
At Pingliangtai in central China, archaeologists documented a roughly 4,000-year-old ceramic drainage system built from...
13,000-Year-Old Footprints Found Under a Beach
On Calvert Island, British Columbia, archaeologists found 29 human footprints preserved beneath active beach deposits in...
2,000 Year Old Slab Shows a Roman Emperor as Pharaoh
At Karnak in Luxor, restoration work revealed a 2,000-year-old sandstone stela from the reign of Tiberius. The slab...
12,000-Year-Old Bone Dice Found in Wyoming — Nobody Noticed
Small marked bone artifacts from Folsom-period contexts in the western Great Plains may be among the earliest known dice...
The 14,500 Year Old Site — Now Dated to 8,200 Years
For 30 years, Monte Verde was the gold standard for the earliest human settlement in the Americas. A forensic look at a...
Why Spanish Coins Were Placed Around a Skull in Georgia
At a Native American burial site in Georgia, archaeologists found Spanish copper coins carefully placed around a human...
The 3,700-Year-Old Stone Built Over Water
For generations, a solitary 6.5-foot stone in a Derbyshire forest was dismissed as a simple waymarker. A forensic look...
This Should NOT Be Here (1,200 MI Away)
A red ochre flute player figure was discovered in the Canadian Rockies, matching rock art styles typically found 1,200...
THEY KNEW WHAT THIS WAS… 3,000 YEARS AGO
A widely circulated claim suggests a 20-centimeter meteoritic iron artifact was discovered at the 3,000-year-old...
The 430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tool That Should Have Rotted
At Marathousa 1 in southern Greece, researchers recovered an 81-centimeter alder wood tool from waterlogged sediments...