How Fossil Fuel Use Is Making Carbon Dating Less AccurateIt's deeply concerning to archaeologists and paleontologists who rely on the method.
Scientists Find Fossil of 150-Million-Year-Old Flesh-Eating Fish—Plus a Few of Its PreyIt has razor-sharp teeth like a piranha's.
Endeavour, Captain Cook's Lost Ship, Might Have Been Found—Solving a Centuries-Old MysteryBut only a full excavation will prove its identity for sure.
Homo Erectus Might Have Been Really 'Lazy'All that stood between them and better stone tools was a little hill. And yet.
Intriguing New Theory Might Explain the Fate of Easter Island's CivilizationIt's calling into question what we thought we knew about the mysterious culture.
The Mysterious Bronze Objects That Have Baffled Archaeologists for CenturiesThey've been discovered at Roman-era sites, but no one knows what they're for.
German Court Awards Farmer $1 Million for 2000-Year-Old Bronzed Horse Head Found in His WellHe was originally paid $55,946.
The Bones of an Early Jamestown Settler May Soon Be IdentifiedArchaeologists think it's a leading citizen.
Drought Reveals Ancient Sites in Scotland That Can Only Be Spotted From the AirSurveyors are taking advantage of the uncharacteristic weather.
Billion-Year-Old Rocks Reveal the First Color Ever Produced by a Living ThingAnd it hasn't gone out of fashion yet.
New Website Lets You Sift Through More Than 700,000 Items Found in Amsterdam's CanalsThe discoveries came from the construction of the city's new metro line.
Human Sacrifice May Have Taken Place at the 'German Stonehenge'Researchers found the dismembered bodies of 10 women and children who appeared to have been thrown into burial shafts.
Gold Artifacts Discovered in 19th-Century Shipwreck That Was the ‘Titanic of Its Time’The wreckage of the <em>Pulaski</em> was lost for almost 180 years.
$2.5 Million in World War II-Era Cash Discovered Beneath Winston Churchill's Former Tailor's ShopThe hoard would have been worth a fortune in the 1940s.
A World War II Bomber Lost with 11 Servicemembers Has Been Found After 74 YearsProject Recover tracked down aircraft in a bay near Papua New Guinea.
Archaeologists Finally Identify a 4000-Year-Old Lost City in IraqA team had been excavating the site for years before figuring out what it was.
King Tut's Tomb Doesn't Contain Hidden Rooms After AllIt was once believed that his stepmother Queen Nefertiti may be hidden away at the same site.