Laura Geggel

The blade, possibly dropped during Coronado’s expedition in 1541, was found in a Texas collector’s stash.

Archaeologists in England unearthed a 2,000-year-old clay head of a figurine depicting the Roman god Mercury.

Two waves of mass death hit prehistoric Denmark, with farmers wiping out hunter-gatherers and pastoralists later wiping out the farmers.

Machine learning has helped decipher part of an ancient carbonized scroll found in a villa that likely once belonged to Julius Caesar’s father-in-law.

The earliest known evidence of bedbugs in Britain was found at a first-century fort near Hadrian’s Wall.

A strawberry isn’t a berry. But scientifically speaking a banana is a berry. So what’s the deal? Why are berries so hard to define?

Findings about our human ancestors continue to surprise us, especially those from 2023.

About 3,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, brickmakers imprinted the names of their kings into clay bricks. Now, an analysis of the metal grains in those bricks has confirmed a mysterious anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field.

The volcano on Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland began erupting on Monday (Dec. 18).

What may be the world’s largest prehistoric hand ax, measuring over 20 inches long, was found in Saudi Arabia.