From petroglyphs to castles carved into hilltops, explore our night sky through our ancestors at these amazing archaeological sites. By Babak A. Tafreshi.

New research suggests that the Bronze Age disaster was caused by the flow of volcanic material into the sea. By Kacey Deamer. (Nov. 8, 2016)

Everywhere Western man longs for Constantinople and nowhere has he any idea how to find her. By Marcia Christoff-Kurapovna.

The 9,000-year-old tool shows that Mesolithic people had sophisticated burial rituals and even cremated their dead. By Jason Daley.

Archaeological evidence found in a rock shelter in the Flinders Ranges reveals Aboriginal Australians settled the arid interior much earlier than previously thought. By Dani Cooper.

Years of research on the evolution of ancient life including the dinosaurs have been questioned after a fatal flaw in the way fossil data is analysed was exposed.

It’s better to be interested than interesting. By The Last Psychiatrist.

New dating on the stone buildings of Nan Madol suggests the ancient coral reef capital in the Pacific Ocean was the earliest among the islands to be ruled by a single chief. By Margaret Allen.

What would Aristotle have thought of modern liberal democracy? It’s complicated. By Paul Cartledge. (June 3, 2016)

Looking for the roots of Halloween in Ireland’s Boyne Valley. By Eric Mullalley.

Jade-inlaid teeth and inscribed tibia unearthed in Holmul ruins of Guatemala hint at influence and power of Mayan dynasty known for snakehead emblem. By Alan Yuhas.

AN Alcester pensioner was surprised to discover the bowl he had been using as a bird bath was actually a rare, almost complete, 2,000 year old… By Liz Sharpe. (Oct. 10, 2016)

China and the West were in contact more than 1,500 years before European explorer Marco Polo arrived in China, new finds suggest..

The entrance to a proposed road tunnel beneath Stonehenge would ruin views of the winter solstice sunset from the stone circle, it is claimed.

Graham Hancock

For the first time, archaeologists have unearthed well-preserved cannabis plants, which were placed on a corpse some 2,500 years ago.

Ancient genomes trace first settlement of the remote Pacific to Asian farmers. By Ann Gibbons.

Analyzing how stories change in the retelling down through the generations sheds light on the history of human migration going as far back as the Paleolithic period. By Julien d’Huy.

Coins issued in ancient Rome have been excavated from the ruins of a castle in a city in Okinawa Prefecture, the local education board said Monday, the first time such artifacts have been recovered from ruins in Japan.

Scientists have been arguing over the authenticity of an ancient document called the Grolier Codex for 50 years. A new analysis published in a special section of the journal Maya Archaeology has concluded that the codex is indeed genuine, making it the oldest surviving manuscript from the pre-Colombian era.