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Elephant bone tool LONDON, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by University College London, a team of researchers led by Simon Parfitt of University College London and London’s Natural History Museum reviewed materials unearthed at the Boxgrove Paleolithic site in southern England in 1990. Among the artifacts, the scientists identified...

Republican-era tomb in the Parco delle Acacie, Rome, Italy ROME, ITALY—Live Science reports that two 2,400-year-old tombs have been uncovered in the Parco delle Acacie near Via Pietralata in northeastern Rome. One tomb contained a stone sarcophagus and three cremation urns, while the other held the remains of a...

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—Fragments of a 2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus jaw have been discovered in the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia, about 620 miles farther north than other known Paranthropus remains, according to a Live Science report. As extinct human relatives, Paranthropus species, including P. robustus, P. boisei, and P. aethiopicus, were bipedal and...

EAST YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of York, an excavation in northern England near the site of Skipsea Castle, built by the Normans around A.D. 1086 on an Iron Age mound, has uncovered traces of high-status Anglo-Saxon buildings such as a possible malthouse, a timber tower,...

Hand stencil depicting humans and animals BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA—According to a Science News report, Adam Brumm of Griffith University and his colleagues dated 11 cave paintings found on small islands to the southeast of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, and determined that a hand stencil in Metanduno Cave on Muna...

Roman coins minted under the emperors Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, and Caracalla SAXONY-ANHALT, GERMANY—Four Roman marching camps were discovered in east-central Germany during a survey of aerial and satellite imagery conducted by archaeologists from the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt and volunteers, according to a Live...

Remnants of column in Vitruvius basilica, Fano, Italy FANO, ITALY—La Brújula Verde reports that a structure discovered in 2023 in eastern Italy’s city of Fano has been identified as a basilica designed by the Roman architect and engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, who wrote the treatise De Architectura in the...

Detail of engravings on limestone block from Švédův stůl Cave PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC—According to a Radio Prague International report, engravings of the heads and necks of horses have been discovered on a piece of limestone in debris left over from the excavation of a cave in South Moravia in...

POMPEII, ITALY—Reuters reports that Louis Autin and Eloïse Letellier-Taillefer of Sorbonne University and Marie-Adeline Le Guennec of Quebec University examined the walls of a corridor connecting Pompeii’s theaters to the Via Stabiana with Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI). The multiple lighting angles of this computational photography method revealed scratches in the...

Examples of British Acheulean handaxes where lumps (in ovals) have been flaked directly CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA—IFL Science reports that the stone knapping skills of Paleolithic humans living in Britain drastically improved about 500,000 years ago. Handaxes made in Britain more than 560,000 years ago are generally relatively thick and asymmetrical...

A new study refines radiocarbon dating of marine remains and significantly improves the precision with which the human past of the Magdalenian period in the Cantabrian region of Spain can be reconstructed, a key phase of European prehistory dating to around 18,000 years ago. The international study led by the...

Researchers from several European institutions, led by scientists from the University of Barcelona and the University of Alcalá, have demonstrated that the hunter-gatherers who inhabited the interior of the Iberian Peninsula during the Last Glacial Maximum (between approximately 26,000 and 19,000 years ago) were part of large-scale social networks capable...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four treponemal diseases, including syphilis—from 5,500-year-old human remains in Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia. The research expands knowledge about the history of this infectious disease and its occurrence in human populations. The findings are published in...

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in southern England and analyzed by archaeologists from UCL and the Natural History Museum, London....

Starchy residue preserved in ancient stone tools may rewrite the story of crop domestication in the American Southwest, according to research led by the University of Utah....

Researchers have deciphered the diet of an important nomadic people in Eastern European history. By analyzing dental calculus, they have provided the first direct evidence that the diet of the Scythians included milk from various ruminants and horses....

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the archaeologists' previous discovery in the same region by 15,000 years or more....

When Neanderthals in Italy were crossing the Alps, it's likely they took refuge in high-altitude bear caves. A new study of stone tools in Caverna Generosa, a cave sitting 1,450 meters up in the mountains, found that these travelers also brought a toolkit with them....

In honor of the Milan Cortina Olympics, Milan cultural officials are for a brief time only allowing visitors access to a long-hidden wall and ceiling painting by Leonardo da Vinci while restoration work is underway....

"A plague is upon us'' may have been a common phrase in ancient Jordan, where countless people perished from a mysterious malady that would shape both a society and an era of civilization....