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Gold rush in Korea’s graves: Eunsun-ri & Dogye-ri tombs yield ornaments and pottery

The tomb groups span about 2 square kilometers in Yeongwon-myeon and include more than 270 tombs.

Gold jewelry excavated from the ancient tombs of Eunseon-ri and Dogye-ri.
The reconstructed skull of a man who died 12,000 years ago in what is now Vietnam.

A 12,000-year-old cold case: is this earliest murder recorded in Southeast Asia?

A life reconstruction of Spicomellus afer.

Unearthed in Morocco's Atlas Mountains: a 165-million-year-old 'porcupine' dinosaur

A 3D printed and painted reconstruction of a Kostensuchus Atrox skeleton.

Meet Kostensuchus Atrox, a land-stalking crocodile cousin from late Cretaceous Argentina


Checua mystery: 6,000-year-old genomes of extinct humans upend the peopling of South America

A previously unknown genetic group at preceramic Checua shows no ties to other prehistoric communities, suggesting isolated hunter-gatherers diverging from early South American settlers.

Checua desert, home to mysterious extinct human lineage.

Neanderthal diversity: Iberian Neanderthals handled the dead with cave deposits, not graves

Archaeological study reveals systematic accumulations of Neanderthal remains in Iberian caves, indicating intentional mortuary practices distinct from burial traditions documented in other regions.

Maltravieso Cave replica with Neanderthals four fingers hand-prints.

1.8 million-year-old human jawbone discovered in Georgia; a key ‘to Eurasia's first colonies’

The Orozmani site, 100 kilometers from Tbilisi, contains layers dated 1.77-1.84 million years old and could reveal the lifestyle of Eurasia's first human colonies outside Africa.

1.8 million year old human jawbone found in Georgia.

8,500-year-old village frozen in time: rising seas reveal a rare archaeological site in Denmark

€13.2 million EU-funded project recovers artifacts from submerged Mesolithic settlement, preserved in oxygen-free sediments after rapid sea level rise forced ancient communities inland.

Aarhus Bay.

Skulls for sale: inside the shocking legal void fueling Britain’s black market in human remains

Instagram sellers. Grave robbers. Gothic collectors. And a law that says almost nothing.

Illustration: Mummified Skulls From Grave Robbed Cemetery, Peru.

Oldest human hybrid? 140,000-year-old skull could rewrite human evolution

Is this ancient child proof that Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals mixed far earlier than we thought?

Prof. Israel Hershkovitz.

Beheaded by colonizers, buried by descendants: France finally returns skull of Malagasy King Toera

A symbol of brutal colonialism comes home after more than a century.

Illustration: Flags of France and Madagascar.

What to do when the hotel staff stop working? Antalya holidaymakers fume: No staff, no refund

“We were left without electricity, and the air conditioning has not been working since last night. We paid 2,500 euros,” said Aydın Akçalan, according to Hürriyet.

 (Illustrative) A rendering of the hotel to be opened in Regba, Israel.

180-million-year-old ‘crocodile’ fossil unearthed in Indian desert village

Jaisalmer district administration has fenced off the area to safeguard the fossil collection from damage.

Artist’s rendering of Phytosaurs

Did farming begin outside the Fertile Crescent? 9,200-year-old grains found in Uzbek cave

Stone tools and ancient grains in a cave in Uzbekistan tell a new story.

The 2019 excavations in Toda Cave.

Europe just got its first look at the world’s oldest human ancestor

The legendary Lucy and Selam fossils are stunning crowds in Prague for only 60 days.

Australopithecus Afarensis diorama at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.