For decades, the sticky black tar that Neanderthals cooked out of birch bark has been filed away in the archaeological literature as prehistoric glue. A new round of laboratory experiments suggests ...
Halloween has a ready-made origin story. Long before children dressed as vampires and superheroes, the Celts supposedly gathered around fires on a night called Samhain. It was then, when the boundary ...
More than 1,000 ancient bone dice have been lifted from the soil beside a single small building in northeastern France, an accumulation so extreme that archaeologists are still arguing over what it ...
Most of the wood is firewood, including branches and trunks up to 7.2 meters long. Two spears came from Level R: one is 2.45 ...
A young horseman buried more than 2,000 years ago in southern Russia went to his grave with weapons, his horse and a gold ...
A metal detectorist who recovered one of Scotland's most important Bronze Age treasures has struck again, lifting a second ...
On the second night, the seer Ezra dreams of an eagle rising from the sea. It has twelve feathered wings and three heads. It ...
And then success can create room to build, provide, repair, and serve. The Stoics knew this. They were not naïve about the uses of wealth or the consequences of rank. Yet today, Stoicism is often ...
A man who died in the Ecuadorian Andes more than 3,000 years ago has a face again. An international team has completed a ...
A new study of ancient DNA indicates that the ancestors of modern Native Americans first arrived in the New World not earlier ...
Now those corroded coins have achieved something no medieval manuscript could: they have proved that a busy English ...
A Babylonian pupil could learn the names of hundreds of gods without ever attending a religion class. In a new study published in Iraq, Shana Zaia shows how divine names, sacred places and proper ...
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