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This massive bone study reveals the exact moment humans changed animal evolution forever

Illustration: cows grazing.
The Ancient Site of Gobekli Tepe, currently considered the oldest temple in the world.

Archaeologists uncover site that could be older than Göbeklitepe

A tomb recently uncovered by Kurdish archaeologists near the Mosul dam.

Iraq's water crisis reveals ancient secrets buried for 2,300 years

The ritual vessel found.

Peru’s Ministry of Culture reveals warrior-themed ritual vessel at Chankillo UNESCO site


DNA confirms Yersinia pestis as cause of the first recorded pandemic 1,500 years ago

Using ancient DNA from eight teeth under Jerash's Roman hippodrome, scientists date the outbreak to mid-6th–early 7th century, finding nearly identical strains from a fast, deadly wave.

A researcher holds a Jerash tooth used to help identify the origin of the first plague.

3,000-year-old axe discovered in Indonesia might have come from Outer Space

"In all my years of study, I had never seen a conical axe like this," said an archeologist.

The possibly-meteorite axe.

9,750-year-old ‘street’ found in Central Anatolia’s Canhasan 3 mound

Turkish excavations reveal 8-meter-long street structure and systematic passages providing settlement access, showing sophisticated urban planning in pre-pottery Neolithic period.

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Harvard scientists pinpoint two pelvic breakthroughs that put humanity on its feet

Study reveals how growth plate reorientation transformed the human ilium from tall and narrow to short, wide, and curved, creating the bowl-shaped pelvis essential for upright walking.

Skeletons of great apes at the University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology. From left to right: Bornean orangutan, western gorilla, western gorilla, chimpanzee and human.

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.

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

"TBH1 lived for several months after the injury occurred," the researchers wrote, adding that without effective treatment the fracture likely led to infection and death within weeks or months.

The reconstructed skull of a man who died 12,000 years ago in what is now Vietnam.

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

The unique and striking neck armor of Spicomellus Afer must have been energetically expensive to form and carry, suggesting it served a display function rather than practical use.

A life reconstruction of Spicomellus afer.

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

A 70-million-year-old apex predator fossil with a well-preserved skull and skeleton marks the first nearly complete specimen of its kind ever described in the region.

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

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.