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Haniwa Dancers: 1,500-year-old ghostly figurines thought to hold the souls of the dead
Two cylindrical clay sculptures may represent dancers who performed at a funeral 1,500 years ago.
'Strange' tomb in Peru holds skeletons of people with ropes around their necks, hands tied behind their backs, archaeologists say
Human sacrifices dating back around 2,300 years have been found near an ancient temple in Peru.
How the racist study of skulls gripped Victorian Britain's scientists
Opinion Craniometry, the study of skull measurements, was widely taught in medical schools in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
2,200-year-old 'complex and delicate' Celtic warrior charm is evidence of sophisticated metalworking in the Iron Age
Archaeologists discovered a 2,200-year-old bronze warrior charm while excavating an ancient Celtic town in Germany.
2,100-year-old skeleton of warrior nicknamed 'Lord of Sakar,' buried in a stunning gold wreath, unearthed in Bulgaria
The second century B.C. burial mound is the richest ever found in Bulgaria.
'A truly unprecedented discovery': 3,000-year-old multicolored mural with fish, stars and gods discovered in Peru
A multicolored mural discovered in Peru is shedding light on pre-Inca coastal artistic traditions.
80,000-year-old stones in Uzbekistan may be the world's oldest arrowheads — and they might have been made by Neanderthals
Small stone points discovered in Uzbekistan may be the earliest evidence of arrowhead technology.
An exotic quartz arrow may have killed a man 12,000 years ago in Vietnam
A man who died 12,000 years ago in Vietnam had a "bonus" rib — and it was broken when he was shot by an exotic arrow.
Malia Bee Pendant: A 3,800-year-old accessory found in a Minoan 'pit of gold'
This extremely detailed depiction of insects holds clues to the natural world of the ancient Minoans.
Mysterious 300,000-year-old Greek cave skull was neither human nor Neanderthal, study finds
Researchers have dated the mysterious skull from Petralona Cave in Greece to 300,000 years ago and concluded that the fossil belonged to an ancient human group that lived alongside Neanderthals.
