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A pebble with holes excavated from the ruins of Nahal Ein Geb II. Could be an ancient spindle whorlLaurent Davin A 12,000-year-old set of perforated pebbles…

Plaster statues of those who died at Pompeii. DNA testing revealed that the adult on the right was a man unrelated to the young child in…

Cylinder seal and its design engraved in clayFranck Raux © 2001 GrandPalaisRmn (Louvre Museum) The world’s oldest known writing system may have its origins in the…

Archaeologist removing excess mud from a Bronze Age plowwessex archeology A Bronze Age wooden spade has been unearthed by British archaeologists. It is extremely rare that…

Bronze Age mummies from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous RegionWenying Lee A mysterious white substance found in a Bronze Age mummy in China has turned out to…

The hole at the top of this image is a vertical shaft to an underground waterway called a qanat.Nazari Bwavka et al. Most of the ancient…

Researchers investigate archaeological site in Greenland’s Wanderdal ValleyHuja Larsen About 4,500 years ago, around the time the Great Pyramids of Giza were built and the Indus…

Inside the monument known as Mengadolmen in SpainMiguel Angel Blanco de la Rubia Neolithic people appear to have understood advanced concepts from sciences such as physics…

Inside the monument known as Mengadolmen in SpainMiguel Angel Blanco de la Rubia Neolithic people appear to have understood advanced concepts from sciences such as physics…

The Altar Stone is located within the two large stone rings of Stonehenge.Gavin Hellyer/Robert Suding/Getty Images A study of the six-tonne altar stone at the heart…