Cattle in The Earliest European Cities Weren't Bred as Food

The earliest cities in Europe were built on the foundations of a mostly vegetarian diet, according to new research.

A Colorado freezer is out of space to store ice samples up to 4.5 million years old

A minus-40-degree vault concealed in a federal government warehouse west of Denver holds the climate science equivalent of gold: the United States’ growing collection of ice from around a war…

11,000-year-old statue of giant man clutching penis unearthed in Turkey

A 7.5-foot-tall statue of a man clutching his penis was unearthed at one of the oldest temple sites in Turkey.

'Very rare' Bronze Age arrow with quartzite tip uncovered from melting ice after 3,000 years

Glacial archaeologists in Norway have found an arrow with its quartzite tip still attached after spending up to 3,000 years in the snow and ice.

'Giant' Axes Discovered From The Ice Age, But Why Are They So Huge?

Two giant prehistoric hand axes, one of which is about a foot long, have been uncovered in deep Ice Age sediments in the south of England.

Ancient Hair Reveals Traces of Hallucinogenic Drugs Taken 3,600 Years Ago

Long before the counter-culture revolution of the 1960s, Bronze Age Europeans were tuning in and dropping out on hallucinogenic drugs.

This Adaptation Allowed Dinosaurs to Not Only Survive But to Dominate The Planet

It's sometimes difficult to imagine how the planet we call home, with its megalopolis cities and serene farmlands, was once dominated by dinosaurs as big as buses and five-story buildings.

Oldest reference to Norse god Odin found in Denmark treasure

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Scandinavian scientists said Wednesday that they have identified the oldest-known inscription referencing the Norse god Odin on part of a gold disc unearthed in western Denmark in 2020.

This Wooden Phallus Might Be a Rare 2,000-Year-Old Dildo

Archaeologists have uncovered what could be a rare example of an ancient sex toy carved from wood, found in a Roman fort known for a plethora of phallic motifs.

Religious Hermit Found Buried in The Fetal Position, And Archeologists Aren't Sure Why

In 15th century England, a woman by the name of Lady Isabel German tucked herself away in a room of the All Saints Church near York.

Scientist Accidentally Discovers The Oldest Brain of Any Vertebrate

Paleontologist Matt Friedman was surprised to discover a remarkably detailed 319-million-year-old fish brain fossil while testing out micro-CT scans for a broader project.

Scientists Discover Oldest DNA Ever, Revealing 2 Million-Year-Old Lost World

The DNA is by far the oldest ever discovered, giving scientists an unprecedented glimpse of a lost ecosystem with "no modern analogue."

Archaeologists Discover 1.2 Million-Year-Old 'Workshop' in Mind-Blowing Find

The discovery pushes the timeline of obsidian tool use back by an astonishing 500,000 years.

Monkeys – Not Humans – Made Ancient Sets of Stone Tools in Brazil, Study Finds

Researchers believe that ancient stone tools discovered in Brazil are the work of capuchin monkeys, not early humans, the art and design website Artnet reported, citing an academic article.

This Ancient Inscription Is The Oldest Sentence in The World's First Alphabet

A recently discovered inscription on an ancient ivory comb is claimed to be the earliest example of a sentence written using an alphabet that would eventually evolve into the set of 26 letters you're translating into words right now.

Ancient Burial of a Young Girl Shows How We Carried Our Babies 10,000 Years Ago

A new look at an extremely rare infant burial in Europe suggests humans were carrying around their young in slings as far back as 10,000 years ago.

Gruesome Skull Discovery Contains The Earliest Evidence of Ear Surgery

An ancient skull uncovered at a 6,000-year-old megalithic monument in Spain still holds signs of what would have been a brutal ear surgery.

The Mysterious Origins of King Tutankhamen's Space Rock Dagger Just Got Clearer

You may already know the legend of King Tutankhamen's space dagger – an iron weapon forged from the rock of meteorites, and entombed with the ancient Egyptian pharaoh.

Mysterious Skull Implanted With Strange Metallic Object Divides Experts

An elongated, cone-shaped skull with a possible metal implant could represent some of the earliest evidence from Peru of an ancient surgical implant. Or it could be a modern-day fake.

The Earliest Unequivocal Evidence of Our Species May Be Even Older Than We Realized

The course of human evolution never did run smooth. The emergence of hominins on the continent of Africa is full of twists, turns, gaps, and dead ends, which makes it all the more difficult to retrace the rise of our own species.