A familiar portrait of Anne Boleyn has just yielded an unfamiliar secret. Infrared scanning and tree-ring dating suggest an Elizabethan artist deliberately altered the so-called “Hever Rose” portrait ...

Migration into the Americas is not about a single “path,” but timing can still rule routes in or out. The Holzman evidence supports the idea of a southward movement of ancestral Clovis-era populations ...

A new bioarchaeological study has identified what researchers describe as the first known case of deliberate mummification applied to a child sacrificed during the Inca capacocha ritual. The finding ...

Part I of the Polar Nexus Series: Reconstructing the ancient world that existed long before recorded history and left its fingerprints on every early civilization.

Shilajit is a natural herbomineral. It develops through the gradual decomposition of plant matter and microbial life trapped between layers of rock in the Himalaya region. The time period for this to ...

A windswept mound on England’s Cumbrian coast may conceal one of the most sought-after Viking burials in Britain: the grave of Ivarr “the Boneless”, a feared 9th-century war leader linked to the Great ...

A “forgotten Alexandria” on the Tigris is being pulled back into focus by archaeologists using drones and geophysics, revealing what appears to have been a vast, carefully planned metropolis in ...

Delicate paper flowers, cut, painted, and layered like small rosettes, survived for roughly a millennium after being sealed inside a cave on China’s Silk Road. The discovery is a reminder that ...

A new, non-peer-reviewed report argues that Egypt’s Great Pyramid may be far older than the familiar Old Kingdom timeline, proposing an age in the order of tens of thousands of years. The claim hinges ...

The two basic characteristics of the Nephilim, namely that they were children of the so-called Sons of God and that they were fallen ones, are attested to in other versions of the same anciet ...

A double burial found in southern Italy more than 60 years ago has just yielded a striking new secret: ancient DNA has confirmed a rare inherited form of dwarfism in a teenage girl who lived around 12 ...

Most reliquary crosses are found broken, opened, or separated, which strips away key information about how they were made and used. This one is different: it’s a two-part cross permanently sealed with ...