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What Created the 12,900-Year-Old Black Layer?
At Murray Springs in southeastern Arizona, a dark organic-rich layer formed above a Clovis-age landscape near the...
476,000-Year-Old Wood Structure Before Modern Humans
At Kalambo Falls in Zambia, waterlogged sediments preserved two large logs deliberately shaped to interlock across a cut...
The 16,000-Year-Old Mine Hidden Under a Wyoming Ghost Town
At the Powars II site beside the Wyoming ghost town of Sunrise, archaeologists documented a Paleoindian hematite quarry...
80-Ton Stones From the Lighthouse of Alexandria
At the submerged Pharos site in Alexandria, archaeologists raised 22 massive architectural blocks for study and...
Nearly 180 Ancient Faces Found on Arctic Stone
At Qajartalik on Qikertaaluk Island, nearly 180 stylized faces were carved into soapstone at an Arctic quarry. A...
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...