Archaeology

Find new ways to fill the long summer days with these quick primers on 10 ancient games

Popcorn might be more than 6,000 years old, an anthropologist explains

A wine still liquid after two millennia turned up at a construction site near Seville, Spain

An ancient shipwreck lost in deep waters has yielded its first clues: amphorae from a lost age of international trade and civilization

Enormous engraved rock art of anacondas, rodents and other animals along the Orinoco River in Colombia and Venezuela may have been used to mark territory 2,000 years ago

Fossils from an ice age “spa” reveal a cluster of hot springs kept trees alive in the frozen Alps

A former stretch of the Nile River, now buried beneath the Sahara Desert, may help scientists understand how Egyptians built the pyramids and adapted to a drying landscape

A mysterious 12-sided object called a dodecahedron discovered in England has archaeologists both excited and baffled

How “heart-centered” archaeology is helping to find the Indigenous children who never came home from residential schools

Fossils and stone tools show that a cave in Saudi Arabia has been used as shelter by humans for millennia, up to the present day

How long can humanity’s artifacts endure on the lunar surface? A new installation from artist Jeff Koons is inadvertently putting this question to the test

Astronomical simulations and ancient Egyptian texts show the Milky Way was linked to the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut. This fits within multicultural myths about our home galaxy