A 1.4 million-year-old fossil jaw belongs to a previously unknown human relative from southern Africa, a new study finds.

Wood protruding from the sand in two countries led to major archaeological discoveries. Photo from Manatū Taonga / New Zealand's Ministry for Culture and Heritage The summaries below were drafted ...

However, researchers' re-examining evidence found in 2006 by West Sussex Archaeology led to a stunning ... physical traces of their predecessors. Discoveries like this are hugely significant ...

Researchers have believed since the 1960s that the fossil jaw, unearthed at the Swartkrans archaeological site, belonged to an early human species called Homo ergaster. But new X-ray scans of the ...

New sites and artifacts are found all the time, revealing forgotten secrets of the past. Here are some of the latest ...

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"This is a rare example of finding runic fragments in well-preserved, datable archaeological contexts,” Steinar Solheim, another author of the study, said. “It is of great importance for ...

Photo from Simona Murrone and the Colosseum Archaeological Park The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in our News division. All linked stories were ...