About 1,000 years ago, Mesoamerican hunter-gatherers wrapped the body of a young man in a bundle, first with a cotton cloth, then with a maguey mat - a thick textile woven from fibers of agave. The ...

It's the end of a nearly 100-year-old mystery. Using DNA-analysis, scientists have identified an ancient human relative nicknamed "Dragon Man", new research showed. It all started with a ...

Archaeologists opened an ancient Chinese tomb and found someone they never expected to see inside: a blonde, bearded man.

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Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a young man who lived 6,000 years ago — and survived a brutal encounter with a lion. A study published in the February 2026 edition of the ...

A 12th-century Norse saga tells of an invading army from the south razing a castle stronghold and throwing a dead body into the well to render the water undrinkable. Human remains believed to be those ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a young man who lived 6,000 years ago — and survived a brutal encounter with a lion. A study published in the February 2026 edition of the ...

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Zahi Hawass recounts his rise in the new documentary The Man With the Hat, gracefully sidestepping the controversies that ...

Archaeologists in Frankfurt, Germany, found a 1,750-year-old amulet with a silver scroll and inscription referencing Christianity, photos show. Photo from the Monument Office of the City of Frankfurt ...