Archaeology

Melting glaciers could liberate ancient microbes

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Scientific American editor Kate Wong talks about the recent conference of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Portland, Ore., where subjects included killer chimps, unprecedented fossil sharing among researchers and divergent hominid foot forms

Ancient reptiles owed huge size more to their eggs than to a benign environment.

The release of life-forms in cold storage for eons raises new concerns about the impacts of climate change

The confiscated wooden covers are adorned with hieroglyphics and highlight what is a seemingly vast black market for mummies

What will scientists find in Antarctica's ancient Lake Vostok?

Sensational fossils from South Africa spark debate over how we came to be human

Sweeping images of the sunken ship were made by stitching together hundreds of optical and sonar images collected by deep-diving robots during a 2010 expedition

Archaeologists have developed a large-scale method and mapped some 14,000 settlement sites in northeastern Syria. The effort could uncover long-term trends in urban activity