The story begins at Kvemo Bolnisi, a smelting workshop perched on a hillside in the Caucasus. Soviet archaeologists first dug ...

Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia discovered over 170 ancient rock engravings that may be among the earliest monumental artworks ...

When an Amazonian tribe tried to regulate the mines on their territory, they invited the violence of modern life into their ...

Discover the ancient workshop in Georgia where an unexpected experiment may have sparked a revolutionary shift in metallurgy.

Laura Spinney is a writer based in Paris. Her latest book is Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (2025). The Great Holocene Transformation: What Complexity Science Tells Us about the Evolution ...

Two archaeologists from the American heartland are embarking on an Amazonian adventure to uncover the remains of a lost civilization — proving that world-class research can emerge from the Ozarks just ...

It is difficult enough to write about the most high-profile political assassination in this country since the Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy killings of 1968. It is considerably more ...

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It’s official: the world’s 1,500th known bat species has been discovered in Equatorial Guinea. And as luck would have it, ...

Shocked quartz, indicative of extreme pressure and temperature, was discovered at three prominent Clovis culture archaeological sites (Murray Springs, Blackwater Draw, Arlington Canyon). The presence ...