The Resurrection Tomb
The story and central claims of the news-making discoveries of a controversial 1st century tomb in Jerusalem.
View ArticleThe First Americans
New findings are pushing back the clock and changing current thinking about the people who first inhabited the Americas.
View ArticleLiving In the Shadow of Angkor
An ancient burial practice in the mountains of Cambodia is mystifying archaeologists.
View ArticleThe Girl in the Cave
The incredible discovery of a submerged ancient Early American skeleton has implications for understanding Native American ancestry and the first peopling of the Americas.
View ArticleThe Tomb of the Warrior King
The newly discovered tomb and contents of a previously unknown pharaoh shed light on a lost ancient Egyptian dynasty.
View ArticleSeeing the Invisible: Visualizing an Ancient Roman Town
For all to see, scientists and experts have visually reconstructed an ancient Roman town in stunning detail.
View ArticleDigging the City of Goliath
Like her most famous citizen of the well-known Biblical story, the ancient city of Philistine Gath was big.
View ArticleThe Tomb of the Griffin Warrior
A rare and rich tomb discovery in Greece opened a window on early Mycenaeans who lived generations before their legendary heroes fought at Troy.
View ArticleLaetoli: The Unfolding Story
THE UPDATE: 3.66-million-year-old footprint finds at the iconic hominin site of Laetoli may be changing what we know about an ancient human ancestor.
View ArticleOn the Threshold of Modern Humanity
The remarkable discovery that may dramatically change what we know about the origin of modern humans.
View ArticleUncovering the Early Mycenaeans
Excavations of princely tombs are shedding new light on a formative time before the high florescence of the Mycenaean civilization.
View ArticleThe First Wave
Discoveries at multiple sites are shedding new light on the earliest dispersal of modern humans out of Africa.
View ArticleAmerica’s Ice Age Hunters
Emerging new discoveries suggest that humans may have been in the Americas over 20,000 years ago.
View ArticleFilling the Gap at Tel Lachish
New discoveries at Tel Lachish in the Southern Levant are changing what we know about the ancient beginnings of the alphabet.
View ArticleThe Cataclysm of 1650 BCE
Research shows that a cosmic object from deep space destroyed and incinerated a great ancient city in present-day Jordan.
View ArticleThe Death Chambers of Herculaneum
Scientists have teased a horrific story from the remains of the ill-fated inhabitants of a once opulent and thriving seaside city of the Roman Empire.
View ArticleLaetoli 2: The Unfolding Story
A NEW UPDATE: 3.66-million-year-old footprint finds at the iconic hominin site of Laetoli may be changing what we know about ancient human-related ancestors.
View ArticleHominin fossil find in Italy suggests multiple human lineages coexisted...
The presence and pattern of peopling of Europe during the Middle Pleistocene (between 770,000 and 126,000 years ago) has long been a subject of debate among scientists. Some scholars suggest...
View ArticleGetting to Know Them: The Neanderthal Heritage
A ‘golden age’ of research has enlightened scientists and the general public alike about who the Neanderthals really were.
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