Archaeology

A survey of the Dolmen of Menga suggests that the stone tomb’s Neolithic builders had an understanding of science

252 million years ago, tardigrades may have escaped extinction using this one weird trick

A new analysis of Stonehenge’s “Altar Stone” suggests Neolithic people walked or sailed some 500 miles to transport the six-ton boulder

A mountaintop burial site offers a glimpse into Inka life—but raises ethical questions about unearthing ancient human remains.

Archaeoastronomers piece together how people understood the heavens thousands of years ago.

A group on the islands of Penghu is restoring ancient fishing weirs, hoping to preserve the sustainable fishing practice and attract ecotourism.

Find new ways to fill the long summer days with these quick primers on 10 ancient games

Popcorn might be more than 6,000 years old, an anthropologist explains

A wine still liquid after two millennia turned up at a construction site near Seville, Spain

An ancient shipwreck lost in deep waters has yielded its first clues: amphorae from a lost age of international trade and civilization

Enormous engraved rock art of anacondas, rodents and other animals along the Orinoco River in Colombia and Venezuela may have been used to mark territory 2,000 years ago

Fossils from an ice age “spa” reveal a cluster of hot springs kept trees alive in the frozen Alps