Apr 13 Watch 1:50 Mobile’s many shipwrecks help tell the area’s long history By Megan Thompson, Mori Rothman During last year’s search in Alabama’s Mobile River for the Clotilda -- the last known slave ship to arrive in the U.S. -- archaeologists also gathered data on all kinds of other artifacts that shed light on the area's rich… Continue watching
Apr 10 Did scientists discover a new species of human in a Philippines cave? By Darren Curnoe, The Conversation The announcement of a new species of ancient human (more correctly hominin) from the Philippines will cause a lot of head-shaking among anthropologists and archaeologists. Continue reading
Mar 20 Which came first: society or a fear of god? By Nsikan Akpan Religion is a fundamental feature of humanity, but did our ancestors need it to form complex societies?… Continue reading
Mar 08 Watch 2:57 Why recreating ancient artifacts may be the future of archaeology Have you ever heard of an archaeologist who burns, hammers or smashes artifacts? That’s what Metin Eren does, except it’s with replicas. Eren is a rising star in the field of experimental archaeology. In his lab at Kent State University,… Continue watching
May 10 Watch 8:17 Why the fate of Bears Ears’ cultural treasures is uncertain By Jeffrey Brown In the rugged and remote canyons of Southern Utah, scientists say they've barely scratched the surface of discoveries that can reach back millions of years, or shed light on the last 10,000 years of human history. But their work in… Continue watching
May 02 Watch 3:33 Old buried ships unearth this city’s seafaring past In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, as the city of Alexandria, Virginia, develops new construction projects, a team of archaeologists is on hand to help preserve a particularly remarkable discovery: three ships from the 1700s hidden in the… Continue watching
Nov 28 Thanks to a particle accelerator, we can see inside this ancient mummy By Fedor Kossakovski On Monday, a team of scientists carted the mummy of a five-year-old girl off for a 24-hour session with a particle accelerator. Continue reading
Nov 02 How cosmic rays spotted a hidden ‘void’ within the Great Pyramid — and why we still don’t know what’s inside By Rashmi Shivni It's the first big structure found inside the Great Pyramid of Giza since the Middle Ages. Continue reading
Jun 10 Ancient fossils from Morocco mess up modern human origins By Kate Wong, Scientific American The findings may push back the origin of our species by more than 100,000 years and challenge leading ideas about where and how our lineage evolved. Continue reading
Apr 26 Analysis: A new study says settlers arrived in the Americas 130,000 years ago. Should we believe it? By Nsikan Akpan An archaeological site near San Diego suggests humans arrived in America more than 100,000 years before previously thought. Continue reading