Archaeologists in Malta uncovered evidence that hunter-gatherers crossed roughly 100 kilometers of open Mediterranean water 8,500 years ago, rewriting the history of ancient seafaring.
For years, it was thought that the Toba Supereruption triggered a brutal volcanic winter and nearly drove humanity to extinction, but archaeology has now complicated that story.
Archaeologists identified 134 shipwrecks beneath Gibraltar’s bay, including Roman-era vessels, revealing 2,500 years of Mediterranean trade, warfare, exploration, and maritime history at Europe’s gateway to Africa in a remarkable discovery.
Scientists are hunting for alien civilizations by searching for technosignatures including pollution, city lights, lasers, unusual heat, and even possible Dyson spheres—turning the search for extraterrestrial intelligence into a kind of cosmic archaeology.
For much of 2025, the number of Americans visiting Canada softened, yet the visitors who did come kept spending more. That sounds contradictory until you stop treating every border crossing as the same kind of trip. A quick drive across the border and a five-night vacation both count as visits, but they leave very different amounts of money behind.
Ancient footprints in Saudi Arabia reveal Homo sapiens crossing a green Arabian landscape 120,000 years ago, reshaping the story of humanity’s journey out of Africa.
Fossil hunter Matthew Myerscough discovered a 201-million-year-old Jurassic sea dragon jaw on a Welsh beach, revealing Wales’s first known rhomaleosaur fossil and an extraordinary chapter of ancient marine reptile history.
Archaeologists investigating a skeleton found beneath a Maastricht church believe it could belong to real-life d’Artagnan, the French musketeer who inspired Alexandre Dumas’s celebrated Three Musketeers hero centuries later.
Metal detectorists know that every signal could be something incredible. They also know it is usually a nail, a bottle cap or another piece of metal nobody has wanted for a very long time. This little object looked like it belonged in the second category. But appearances were about to be very, very misleading.
