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Babylonian tablet preserves student's 4,000-year-old geometry mistake
A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student calculated the area of a triangle incorrectly 4,000 years ago.
1,500-year-old riches and more than 100 weapons found under Iron Age chieftain's house
Archaeologists in Denmark have recovered dozens of lances, spears, swords and knives along with a set of chainmail from an Iron Age chieftain's house.
Anglo-Saxons plagiarized a Roman coin — and it's full of typos
The pagan Anglo-Saxons copied a gold Roman coin with Christian imagery, but they didn't do a very good job.
1.5 million-year-old footprints reveal our Homo erectus ancestors lived with a 2nd proto-human species
A set of footprints found at the site of Koobi Fora in Kenya reveals that our ancestor Homo erectus coexisted with a now-extinct bipedal hominin, Paranthropus boisei, 1.5 million years ago.
Coins worth over $1 million recovered from 1715 Spanish treasure shipwrecks in Florida
Authorities in Florida have recovered 37 coins worth over $1 million stolen from an 18th-century Spanish shipwreck.
'Stunning' discovery reveals how the Maya rose up 4,000 years ago
The discovery of complex fish trapping networks from 4,000 years ago hint at how the Maya rose up as a civilization in Central America and what is now southern Mexico.
No, scientists didn't find Amelia Earhart's 'missing plane' — here's what they did find
Sonar images released in January 2024 were proposed as the final resting place of the famous aviator's missing aircraft. But further inspection has revealed a simpler explanation.
'Treated as something dangerous and vicious': See stunning reconstruction of 'vampire' buried with a blade over her neck
A new reconstruction of a woman from a 17th-century "vampire" burial reveals a young-but-sickly woman whom villagers feared so much they buried her under a blade and padlock.
From 'Lucy' to the 'Hobbits': The most famous fossils of human relatives
Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our evolutionary history.
Ancient Egypt quiz: Test your smarts about pyramids, hieroglyphs and King Tut
For over 3,000 years, ancient Egypt was one of the most powerful civilizations on Earth, with an empire stretching across half a dozen modern-day countries. How much do you know about this iconic culture? Take our quiz to find out.
