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First Undisturbed In-Jar Burials Found on Laos Plain of Jars Confirm Funerary Role

Radiocarbon dates plus imported beads indicate repeated use from 890 to 1160 A.D.

Pompeii Unveils First AI Portrait of Vesuvius Victim

Ancient DNA Study Finds Recent Selection Shaped Hundreds of Human Genes

Possible Remains of d’Artagnan Found in Dutch Church

Sealed Chamber in Luxor Yields 22 Painted Coffins Linked to Amun Temple Singers

Pompeii Opens Permanent Exhibition of 22 Victim Casts From the AD 79 Eruption

Study Recasts 2,800-Year-Old Serbian Mass Grave as Targeted Killing of Women and Children

Gold-Laden Elite Tomb Unearthed at Panama’s El Caño Site

1,000-Year-Old Elite Tomb Unearthed at Panama’s El Cano Site

Viking-Age Mass Burial Unearthed Near Cambridge Reveals Brutal Deaths and a Trepanned Giant

Cambridge Students Unearth Possible Early Medieval Execution Pit at Wandlebury

9,500-Year-Old Malawi Find Is Africa’s Earliest Cremation and Oldest Adult Pyre

Malawi Pyre Dating to 9,500 Years Ago Is Africa’s Earliest Intentional Cremation

Viking-Age Grave in Norway Shows Unprecedented Scallop Shell Placement at Woman’s Mouth

Neanderthals at Goyet Targeted Nonlocal Women and Children for Cannibalism, Study Finds

Musée de l’Homme Opens ‘Momies’ Exhibition, Reframing Mummification as Global

Aconcagua Inca Child Mummy Moved to Restricted Museum Care in Mendoza as Public Display Is Ruled Out

Inca Child From Aconcagua Moved to Mendoza Museum Ahead of Final Return

Teen’s Face-Down Iron Age Burial Unearthed in Dorset During TV Filming

Dorset Excavation Points to Iron Age Human Sacrifice, With Victims Cast Onto Bone Platforms