Scientists are debating whether ancient humans survived near-extinction events, from a mysterious 900,000-year-old bottleneck to the massive Toba supereruption.
A drowned Ice Age coastline off northwestern Australia may hold vital clues to how ancient humans crossed seas, settled Sahul, and spread across the continent.
Archaeologists in Slovakia uncovered human remains inside wells and shallow graves at a Roman military camp linked to Marcus Aurelius, leaving experts searching for answers about the site’s mysterious end.
Discover how ancient humans in Ethiopia survived the Toba supereruption by fishing in shrinking river pools, adapting to drought, and creating blue highways that may have supported human migration worldwide.
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.
