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17th-Century Teen Found With Padlock on Toe and Sickle at Throat Points to Anti‑demonic Burial Practices

Researchers report the padlock and sickle were added after the initial burial as precautions to restrain the dead.

New Studies Challenge Idea That Smarter Humans Drove Neanderthals to Extinction

Pompeii Incense Study Finds Burned Wine and Imported Resin

Satellite Survey Finds Dozens of Stone Circles Around Rujm el‑Hiri

AI Simulations Reconstruct Likely Rules of Roman-Era Board Game From Dutch Artifact

Fingerprint and Pine Pitch Point to Baltic Origins for Denmark’s Hjortspring Boat

Scans Find Two Small Voids Behind Menkaure Pyramid’s Eastern Granite, Supporting Second-Entrance Hypothesis