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The 1,000 year-old brain of an individual excavated from the c. 10th Century churchyard of Sint-Maartenskerk (Ypres, Belgium). The folds of the tissue, which are still soft and wet, are stained orange with iron oxides.
Alexandra L. Morton-Hayward
‘Extraordinary’ archive of ancient brains could help shed light on mental illness
Inside view of the Taforalt Cave in Morocco
Abdeljalil Bouzouggar
Paleo diet? Study reveals new insight on what Stone Age humans really ate
Avar male burial with a belt garniture and a ceramic mug at the R??k?3czifalva site, Hungary (8th century AD)
Institute of Archaeological Sciences/E?tv?s Loránd University; Múzeum
Sex and marriage patterns in an ancient empire revealed by DNA
Life-like reconstruction of the vertebrae of Vasuki in dorsal (top) view.
S. Bajpai/D. Datta/P. Verma
Colossal prehistoric snake discovered in India
A view of a life size woolly mammoth on display at The Box museum in Plymouth, UK.
Andrew Matthews/PA Images/Getty Images
Scientists inch forward in efforts to resurrect an extinct giant
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Alain Beeching
Ancient skeletons unearthed in France reveal Mafia-style killings
Reconstruction of the Iceman by Alfons & Adrie Kennis
South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/Ochsenreiter
?tzi the Iceman’s 61 tattoos weren’t made in the way archaeologists first thought
The fossil skull of <em>Kermitops </em>
Brittany M. Hance/Smithsonian
Researchers found a tiny skull with wide eyes and a cartoonish grin. It could help solve an evolutionary puzzle
Prehistoric humans in Brazil carved drawings in the rock next to dinosaur footprints, suggesting that they may have found them meaningful or interesting, a new study has found.
Leonardo Troiano
Mysterious symbols found near footprints shed light on ancient humans’ awareness of dinosaurs, scientists say
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Jaime Bran
Ancient giant dolphin discovered in the Amazon
The facial reconstruction of Emperor Wu who was ethnically Xianbei CREDIT Pianpian Wei.jpg
Pianpian Wei
Ancient DNA reveals intriguing details about a sixth century Chinese emperor
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Cambridge Archaeological Unit
Remains of an ancient dinner still sit in a Bronze Age village 2,850 years later
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Cambridge Archaeological Unit
‘Britain’s Pompeii’ reveals Bronze Age village frozen in time
The unique preservation of the tree, Sanfordiacaulis densifolia, where the trunk is surrounded by more than 250 spirally arranged leaves, was the result of earthquakes in a 352-million-year-old rift-lake system, now exposed in New Brunswick, Canada.
Courtesy Matthew Stimson
Rare ancient tree discovery has scientists ‘gobsmacked’
KONYA, TURKIYE - MARCH 1: A excavation site is seen as a 8600-year-old bread is found at Catalhoyuk, one of the first urbanization models in the world, which included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, during an excavation at Cumra district in Konya, Turkiye on March 1, 2024. New finds are being encountered at Catalhoyuk, where about 8 thousand people lived together during the Neolithic period. (Photo by Serhat Cetinkaya/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Serhat Cetinkaya/Anadolu/Getty Images
‘World’s oldest bread,’ dating back 8,600 years, discovered in Turkey
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Julia Mayo/Fundación El Ca?o
Ancient lord’s tomb found filled with gold and multiple sacrificial bodies