Holy hand grenades? Archaeologists found shards of medieval hand grenades

It may not be a holy hand grenade, but it is a hand grenade.

By Cassidy Ward 3 weeks ago

Indigenous North Americans were doing skull surgery 3,000 years ago

Sometimes you actually do need another hole in your head.

By Cassidy Ward 1 month ago

Even cave people longed for the old days: Ancient tool recycling driven by stone-age sentimentality

They just don't make hand axes like they used to.

By Cassidy Ward 2 months ago

Is the space-age metal implant in this ancient skull for real?

It's definitely human, but...

By Elizabeth Rayne 2 months ago

King Tut's meteorite dagger unsheathes more mysteries

It came from outer space, but it didn't land in Egypt.

By Elizabeth Rayne 2 months ago

Porta-potties existed in the ancient world too

…except they were much less sanitary.

By Elizabeth Rayne 3 months ago

Humans were taking over Europe much earlier than we thought 

And you thought they were too primitive.

By Elizabeth Rayne 3 months ago

Human vertebra fossil tells us where we came from — and how we got where we are

We still had a long way to go before taking over the planet.

By Elizabeth Rayne 3 months ago

8,000 years ago, global cooling brought people together to create a mass grave

They say death brings us together; in the case of our ancestors, it was literally true.

By Cassidy Ward 3 months ago

Pregnant mummy reveals fetus that wasn't just mummified, but pickled

Bizarre things can happen with body chemistry after death.

By Elizabeth Rayne 3 months ago