Stones, Bones, and Wrecks

Scientific Reports, Fernando Ramirez Rozzi

The practice of drilling holes into skulls goes back millennia.

The oldest coin dates back to 714 CE.

Aaron Deter-Wolf and the Tennessee Division of Archaeology

It was unearthed more than 30 years ago, but archaeologists have only just realized what it is.

Aerial photo of site Mt05, a circular enclosure (140 meter diameter) located on a hilltop.

Life in the Amazon before colonization was more bustling than previously thought.

After receiving the coffin in 1860, the museum finally decided to open it up last year.

Ata has never been an alien, but she's always been an enigma.

People that came before us are sometimes underfoot.

The USS 'Juneau' had five brothers stationed there at one time. Then tragedy struck.

The red ochre pigment might have been used for art or to color animal skins.

The analysis supports the theory that Earhart died a castaway.

Every year, billions of dollars in ancient artifacts and other cultural objects are looted and sold around the world. A new project is training dogs to sniff them out.

The bones were found near Bellamy's ship, the Whydah, which wrecked off the coast of Massachusetts in 1717.

In the late 9th century, Vikings across Scandinavia banded together to invade England.

Phil Arnold/Professional Coin Grading Service

And you can buy some of it.

The ship arrived in Alabama in 1859 in defiance of a law that prohibited importing slaves to the U.S. To hide the evidence of its illegal venture, its captain burned and sunk the ship, and its wreck has been lost to history. Until now.

Haifa University researchers pieced together more than 60 tiny parchment fragments to decipher the document.

The British palace's limestone is riddled with mineralized microbes from 200 million years ago.

©Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello

Hemings learned the art of French cooking in Paris and brought haute cuisine to America.

Europe’s largest engineering project uncovered countless historic treasures, ranging from bones to Tudor bowling balls.

An estimated 35,000 German soldiers died in Estonia during World War II while fighting Soviet troops.

Humans Might Have Practiced Brain Surgery on Cows 5000 Years Ago

13-Year-Old Amateur Archaeologist Discovers the Buried Treasure of a Danish King

This May Be the Oldest Tattoo Kit in the World

An 88,000-Year-Old Middle Finger May Change What We Know About Human Migration

Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out Why We Have Eyebrows

Stormy Waters Carry a 19th-Century Shipwreck to Florida Beach

Ice Age Human Footprints in Canada Reveal a Walk on the Beach Taken 13,000 Years Ago

Part of the Amazon Thought to Be Uninhabited May Have Been Home to 1 Million People

Museum Finds 2500-Year-Old Mummy in a Sarcophagus Marked 'Empty'

The 'Alien' Mummy Is of Course Human—And Yet, Still Unusual

8 Cemeteries Unearthed at Construction Sites

Microsoft's Co-Founder Finds WWII Ship Lost for 76 Years

UK Archaeologists Have Found One of the World’s Oldest 'Crayons'

Forensic Analysis Suggests Bones Discovered on a Pacific Island May Belong to Amelia Earhart

New Program Trains Dogs to Sniff Out Art Smugglers

Archaeologists Say They May Have Found the Skeleton of the Pirate "Black Sam" Bellamy

This Mass Grave in England May Hold the Skeletons of Hundreds of Viking Invaders

Gold Worth Millions, Salvaged From a 19th-Century Shipwreck, Is Going on Display in California

Local Reporter May Have Found the Burned Remains of the Last American Slave Ship

Scientists Crack the Cryptic Code of a 2000-Year-Old Dead Sea Scroll

Buckingham Palace Was Built With Jurassic Fossils, Scientists Find

Inside the Kitchen of Thomas Jefferson's Acclaimed—and Enslaved—Chef James Hemings

8 Amazing Things Discovered During the Expansion of the London Underground

Construction Workers Discover World War II–Era German Burial Ground in Estonia