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Ancient Maya quiz: What do you know about the civilization that built pyramids across Mesoamerica?
Is your knowledge of the ancient Maya as extraordinary as their pyramids?
Rare face tattoos on 800-year-old mystery mummy baffle archaeologists
Analysis of a mummy kept for a century at the University of Turin in Italy has revealed rare face tattoos made with a special black ink.
2,300-year-old gold ring found in Israel was likely buried by a betrothed girl
A gold ring with a red gemstone found in Israel dates to the Hellenistic period and may have been buried in a coming-of-age ritual.
140,000 year old bones of our ancient ancestors found on sea floor, revealing secrets of extinct human species
Researchers have recovered Homo erectus bones from the seafloor, which points to an unknown hominin population hunting on land that is now underwater in Southeast Asia.
'It was probably some kind of an ambush': 17,000 years ago, a man died in a projectile weapon attack in what is now Italy
A new analysis of a skeleton uncovered 50 years ago provides some of the earliest evidence of intergroup conflict between humans to date.
Viking Age women may have wielded weapons when pregnant, sagas and ancient artifacts hint
Opinion Despite its central role in human history, pregnancy has often been overlooked in archaeology.
'It epitomises the strangeness of Sutton Hoo': 6th-century bucket found at Anglo-Saxon ship burial holds human cremation
Archaeologists found a cremation burial while examining the inside of a bucket from Sutton Hoo, a 1,400-year-old boat burial site in England.
Oseberg tapestry: Viking Age artwork from a boat burial that may depict the Norse tree of life
This tapestry also contains one of the only known depictions of a horned Viking helmet.
