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Neolithic stone bead excavated from a grave at Boncuklu Tarla, Türkiye in 2023.
Emma L. Baysal
‘They’re quite like us’: Scientists reveal groundbreaking finding on Stone Age piercings — and who wore them
Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) and a small replica. "Mamut" exhibition at CaixaForum on Mammoths, the Giants of Ice Age, Zaragoza, Spain. (Nano Calvo / VWPics via AP Images)
Nano Calvo/VWPCS/AP
Elephant stem cells created in a lab for the first time could help bring back the mammoth
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
A general view of the oldest dated cave art in South America, with nearly 8,200 years old, at the Huenul 1 cave, in Neuquen, Argentina March 3, 2024. REUTERS/Miguel Lo Bianco
Miguel Lo Bianco/Reuters
These 8,200-year-old cave paintings are the earliest ever found in South America
stone tool possibly from Layer VII at Korolevo I. Surface find.
Roman Garba
‘Cosmic clock’ dates earliest human presence in Europe
Dead buried in a sitting position (left) and people lying on their side (bottom half) with a dense filling in the centre of the pit.
In Terra Veritas
Mass grave with 1,000 skeletons found in Germany
Roman head of Mercury found at Smallhythe
James Dobson/National Trust Images
Discovery of a rare ceramic head reveals a previously unknown Roman settlement
An artist's reconstruction of how the stone artifact with an adhesive handle could be held by a Neanderthal
Daniela Greiner
Neanderthal glue points to complex thinking
LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 22: A basalt Easter Island Head figure, known as Hoa Hakananai'a, translated as 'lost or stolen friend' is displayed at the British Museum on November 22, 2018 in London, England. The Governor of the Easter Islands, Tarita Alarcón Rapu, has 'pleaded' with the British Museum to return the piece, which was taken by the British members of the U.K.’s Royal Navy of the H.M.S. Topaze in 1868. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Activists bombard British Museum’s social media with calls for return of Easter Island statue
An aerial view of the shipwreck on the shore of Cape Ray, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada on January 30, 2024.
Corey Purchase/AFP/Getty Images
A fierce storm uncovered a mysterious shipwreck. Now another could destroy it
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The egg was discovered in Aylesbury, UK.
Oxford Archaeology
Roman egg still intact found in UK in ‘amazing’ discovery
Virtual unwrapping of text from within PHerc.Paris.4
Vesuvius Challenge
A philosopher’s words emerge from charred, ancient scrolls
Archaeologist excavating the funerary bed
Museum of London Archaeology
Rare Roman funerary bed discovered in London
2FMPPJB Ankara, Turkey - March 13, 2021 - people at Mustafa Kemal Atatu¨rk's Mausoleum at Anitkabir
Jacques Krier/Alamy Stock Photo
Brutalism, bureaucracy and beauty: Why Turkey’s capital city isn’t ‘gray’
Sonar image taken of potential Earhart aircraft (PRNewsfoto/Deep Sea Vision)
Deep Sea Vision/PR Newswire
Explorers say they think they’ve found Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane