These out-of-place artifacts, or OOPArts, are surprising for their place and time — but there's an explanation behind each ...

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The surprising discovery offers new insight into how prehistoric communities cared for people who were injured or disabled.

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Archaeologists at the Hisardere Necropolis in Iznik found an early Christian fresco inside a tomb that depicts a young, clean ...

“Early humans comprised a subdivided, shifting, pan-African meta-population with physical and cultural diversity,” read a statement on the research. “This framework better explains existing genetic, ...

During excavations in the village of Senon, archaeologists found three 1,700-year-old jugs packed with approximately 40,000 ...

Mark "Chopper" Read was a mob enforcer and contract killer who rose to fame after writing a memoir while behind bars.

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Pyrite found at a 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England suggests that early humans were making fire long before experts ...