A spiral temple sits atop a 3,000-year-old burial mound known as Montegrande in northern Peru’s Amazon region.(Courtesy Quirino Olivera Nuñez) The Amazon jungle wasn’t supposed to have been ...
Some 40 years ago, a Buddhist monk uncovered a mandible in Baishiya Karst Cave, more than 10,000 feet above sea level on the Tibetan Plateau. The specimen has now been dated to 160,000 years ago ...
A detail from a Late Classic vase from the Peten region depicts a Maya queen (above right) with red lines painted below her eyes and a female attendant (above left) with a light patch around her ...
Rarely has a single find changed scholars’ views of the capabilities of people of the past as radically as the discovery of the world’s earliest known wooden architecture, which dates to ...
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND—Glasgow Times reports that volunteers from Clutha Archaeology Group, in collaboration with Archaeology Scotland and Countryside Ranger Service, have unearthed artifacts that ...
A small crack in a vaulted ceiling led archaeologists to a new room of the Domus Aurea, or “Golden House,” the immense pleasure palace built by the emperor Nero after a fire devastated Rome in ...