Found in an ancient Egyptian tomb almost a century ago, the Sabu Disk remains one of archaeology’s most unusual discoveries.

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Deputies in Apple Valley are investigating after mysterious skeletal remains were discovered in the backyard of a home by ...

Whale falls become feeding grounds for many species on the ocean floor, primarily because of the carbon-rich nutrients they provide. When the Chinese submersible Fendouzhe sank in ...

An analysis of tooth proteins suggests all 23 Homo naledi individuals found in the Rising Star cave in South Africa were ...

Researchers investigating an ancient settlement in present-day Slovakia say the remains may point to a long-forgotten ritual rather than a massacre K. Fuchs, T. Kühl, N. Müller-Scheeßel Archaeologists ...

Archaeologists studying a 7,000-year-old settlement in present-day Slovakia expected to learn more about how some of Europe's earliest farming communities lived. Instead, they uncovered a mystery they ...

The oldest known cases, discovered among hunter-gatherers in Siberian graves, contradict the theory that the disease once was mild. By Carl Zimmer In ancient Siberian graves, scientists have ...

It’s a real head-scratcher. Archaeologists are struggling to put together the pieces after 77 headless skeletons were discovered in a Stone Age gravesite in Slovakia, per a grisly study in the journal ...

A student who plunged to her death during a bungee jump with no cord in Brazil was still alive immediately after the fall, according to an off-duty nurse who rushed to save her. Maria Eduarda ...

The fossilized remains of more than 450 whales have amassed along a 750-mile-long stretch of the Indian Ocean floor ...