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The Mayan calendar is older than we thought, researchers say
A site in Guatemala housed the oldest known example of a written calendar date in Maya civilization.
Where and when did humans evolve? New climate data may reveal the answer
A behemoth new study reveals startling insight into ancient human evolution.
Female migration to these remote Scottish islands ushered in a cosmopolitan era
Remains from the northern Scottish region of Orkney show female migrants were accepted into society and ushered in a wave of prosperity.
Scientists are tantalizingly close to cracking any ancient texts wide open
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The Mayan calendar is older than we thought, researchers say
A site in Guatemala housed the oldest known example of a written calendar date in Maya civilization.
Where and when did humans evolve? New climate data may reveal the answer
A behemoth new study reveals startling insight into ancient human evolution.
Female migration to these remote Scottish islands ushered in a cosmopolitan era
Remains from the northern Scottish region of Orkney show female migrants were accepted into society and ushered in a wave of prosperity.
Scientists are tantalizingly close to cracking any ancient texts wide open
This is autofill for antiquity.
4000-year-old oyster shells reveal how climate change transformed ancient societies
The remarkable new study sheds light on oysters, ancient peoples, and climate change.
This 5,300 year-old ear surgery was gnarly and painful
An elderly Neolithic woman not only had two holes drilled into her head, but also survived.
Look: New evidence may finally solve a huge Stonehenge mystery
Stonehenge’s structure could have marked a 365-day calendar.
Orangutans could reveal how ancient humans made the first stone tools
This was a critical skill for human development — do apes have these skills, too?
The Webb Telescope’s first snapshot of a star and more: Understand the world through 7 images
Fossils reveal humans and Neanderthals coexisted far longer than we thought
Yet more evidence we really need to re-examine what we thought we knew about Neanderthals in Europe.
Look: 500 years ago, Ancient Peruvians used human remains to defy colonialism
500-year-old evidence shows Peruvians may have reassembled their deads' vertebrae on poles as a ritual to counter colonizers' tomb raiding and looting.
A new study is complicating the idea that ‘Meat Made Us Human”
A widely accepted theory on meat's role in human evolution could be the result of sampling bias.
The surprising connection between straws and funerals
These might be the oldest straws in our possession today.
Look: A mysterious Bronze Age animal reveals an evolutionary first
Meet the kunga.
Pompeii's ruins reveal our morbid obsession with death
It’s uncanny.
Fossils that "clearly foreshadow" modern humans are 30,000 years older than we thought
Scientists update the age of the Omo I fossils in eastern Africa, pushing the timeline of human history in the region back by some 30,000 years.
