The town grew from an Iron Age village of about 30 roundhouses alongside a road.
At least 2 hominin species lived at Laetoli site 3.6 million years ago
Ancient hominin Lucy may have walked alongside yet another bipedal hominin species.
This decorated mammoth ivory pendant is 41,500 years old
The pendant is the oldest example of a style that swept Paleolithic Europe.
This is the world’s oldest image of a ghost
The Babylonian tablet may have come from an ancient exorcist’s library.
Lidar reveals hundreds of long-lost Maya and Olmec ceremonial centers
The sites suggest cultural links between the two Mesoamerican civilizations.
23,000-year-old footprints suggest people reached the Americas early
People may have walked along the shore of a lake in New Mexico 23,000 years ago.
9,000 years ago, funerals in China involved a lot of beer
The world’s oldest painted pottery may have been for drinking beer at a funeral.
Pompeii tomb reveals formerly enslaved man’s rise to wealth and power
The tomb’s inscription also offers the first evidence of Greek theater in the city.
Archaeologists find ancient Egyptian warship sunk near Alexandria
The fast galley probably sank during an earthquake in the 100s BCE.