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November 26, 20253 min readMysterious Fossil Foot Belonged to Ancient Human that Lived Alongside ‘Lucy’Newly identified bones tie the mysterious Burtele foot to a new Australopithecus…

A data set nearly doubles the known length of roads used during the Roman Empire. Credit: Itiner-e, Artas Media, MINERVAA high-resolution digital map allows people to…

November 5, 20253 min readArchaeologists Uncover a Monumental Ancient Maya Map of the CosmosArchaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built…

Elusive Cures Nicole C. Rust Princeton Univ. Press (2025)Over the past few decades, brain research has produced effective treatments for pain, insomnia, postpartum depression, paralysis and…

October 24, 20253 min readNapoleon’s Defeat in Russia Was Aided by Two Surprising Deadly DiseasesDisease-causing bacteria that have been recently discovered in the teeth of Napoleonic…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.When New York-based jeweller Sarah Ysabel Narici was…

If you glanced into a green field and saw a yellow digger tearing into the turf, you might assume it was another site for new houses.…

Unusual features found in rocks on Mars may be the handiwork of ancient microbial life that eked out an existence on the red planet billions of…

A cow’s tooth from a jawbone deliberately placed beside the entrance to Stonehenge at the Neolithic monument’s very beginning in 2995 to 2900BC could offer tantalising…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.Experimental archaeology takes a hands-on approach to understanding the past. Instead of just studying ancient objects researchers…