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Doctor's kit found on Mount Vesuvius victim in PompeiiA man who died in Pompeii during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 was carrying a medical kit with him, new scans reveal.
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950-year-old burial of a pet dingo reveals unique archaeological evidence of humans ritually 'feeding' a graveArchaeologists have excavated the remains of a dingo that was buried by ancestors of the Australian Aboriginal Barkindji people and "fed" for the next 500 years with river mussels.
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Daunian kyathos: A 2,700-year-old ceramic cup from Italy decorated with an exuberant-looking, bug-eyed fellowAstonishing Artifacts A pre-Roman ceramic cup or ladle that could inspire kitchenware today — this li'l dude is excited to mix!
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'We kept finding large, circular mass graves' in the Sahara predating the ancient Egyptians, archaeologists reportOpinion Archaeologists have found 260 burials in the Sahara that predate ancient Egypt.
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8-year-old African American boy from Colonial Maryland found buried with white Colonists, and it's unclear if he was enslavedA 17th-century cemetery from Colonial Maryland held the remains of an 8-year-old boy with majority African ancestry, as well as two indentured servants.
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High-status Roman woman was buried in a lead coffin with jet hairpins and exotic resins, archaeologists findA burial of an elite Roman-era woman who appears to have been buried with exotic resins has been discovered in Colchester.
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'Exceptional' drilled tooth reveals Neanderthals practiced dentistry in Siberia 60,000 years agoA hole found in a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal tooth was likely made by a stone drill, making the discovery the oldest evidence of intentional dentistry to date.
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Homo erectus genetic material sequenced for the first time, and it shows 'deep genetic links' with modern humansA new study of six Homo erectus individuals from China reveals one amino acid variant that distinguished this archaic human from all other human lineages and one that it passed on to modern humans via Denisovans.
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'Speculation' and 'egregious failure': 30 researchers publish scathing critiques of study that questioned date of early human occupation of Monte Verde in ChileDozens of scientists have banded together to pen scathing research letters to the journal Science about the publication of a study claiming the 14,500-year-old Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile is much younger than shown.
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