A 40,000-year-old mammoth ivory boomerang from Obłazowa Cave in Poland is the world's oldest known example, revealing remarkable Ice Age craftsmanship and early human innovation.

New research reveals that the earliest Americans specialized in hunting megafauna like mammoths and giant ground sloths, aiding their rapid expansion across the Americas.

Archaeologists have discovered Minanbé, an intact unlooted Maya city in Mexico's Calakmul jungle — complete with pyramids, 14 carved stelae, and hieroglyphic texts dating to 849 AD and the Maya collapse.

AI has read the complete text of a Herculaneum scroll burnt by Vesuvius in 79 AD — revealing a lost Stoic treatise and an unknown book by Epicurean philosopher Philodemus, unread for 2,000 years.

From gold scarab rings to triple-god amulets, Karnak's buried jewelry reveals how ancient Egyptians used precious objects to honor gods, signal status, and prepare for eternity — and archaeologists are still finding more.

Vikings were very fond of giving nicknames to friends or foes. The names could be insulting or funny, derived from body parts, accomplishments or failures.

Rock carvings at 12 Iberian sites match Bronze Age boat designs from Scandinavia — same rigging, same bird symbols, same sun crosses — suggesting Atlantic sailors connected Europe's opposite coasts 3,000 years ago.

An historic restitution of 18 looted Benin Bronzes from Swiss museums to Nigeria marks a significant step in repatriating stolen cultural heritage.

A perfectly sealed cave near Fureidis, Israel has sat untouched for 400,000 years — and researchers say it offers one of the clearest windows ever found into life before Neanderthals.

Step inside King Tut's tomb exactly as Howard Carter found it in 1922 — every golden shrine, chariot, and amulet still in the spot ancient priests placed it 3,300 years earlier.