Researchers in Spain have unearthed a fossil from a potential new prehistoric member of the human family tree, and they say it’s the earliest known remnants of a face discovered in Western Europe. The facial bones from an adult were found at the Atapuerca archaeological site in northern Spain in 2022. Since then, a team…
Egyptian officials announced Tuesday the discovery of the tomb of King Thutmose II, the last of the lost tombs of the kings of ancient Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty, which reigned for over two centuries between about 1550 BC and 1292 BC. It’s the first royal Egyptian tomb to be discovered since King Tutankhamun’s final resting place…
London — The Herculaneum scrolls have remained one of the many tantalizing mysteries of the ancient world for almost 2,000 years. Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th…
New research suggests that dozens of Bronze-Age era Britons were killed in an attack unlike any previous known to archaelogists studying that time period and location. The research on human remains from Charterhouse Warren in southwest England, conducted by a team of researchers from multiple institutions including Oxford University, was published in Antiquity, a journal…
