A newly published study in Antiquity found coca compounds in every hair sample from Inca children buried on Andean volcanoes, ...

The Egyptian texts and Plutarch do not tell most of the parallels in the popular list. A familiar post is doing the rounds on ...

In 1643 an Icelandic bishop signed a small vellum book with a Latin joke. It already had a hole in it. The hole falls exactly ...

Dated seeds and chemical signals in hair suggest intoxicating cannabis use at a Scythian princely tomb in southern Siberia.

Sui coins and celadon from a hillside garrison in Changping have led the Beijing Institute of Archaeology to redate part of ...

A viral X post says Bosch painted a playable song on a sinner's backside in Hell. The notes are in the painting and a student ...

For centuries, readers knew the text mainly through scattered quotations in early Christian writers. Then, in the 1880s and ...

Excavations at Las Minillas in Badajoz have dated a Late Bronze Age copper mine to about 1350 to 750 BC. Its ore, slag and ...

A written account of Jesus rising from the dead was identified in a 2,000-year-old manuscript: Unverified Josephus wrote in ...

A viral X post says the Merneptah Stele confirms the Bible. It is a genuinely important early witness that names Israel as a ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have reconstructed a wooden cupboard from the traces it left in the volcanic deposits, along with what it held: a beauty kit, a necklace of at least 24 tiny amulets, a basket ...

A sharp cold spell began about 12,900 years ago, with a platinum spike in Greenland ice at its start: Established A comet impact or airburst caused the cold sp ...