Archaeology

Forgotten drawers in Egyptian museum yield 'astonishing' leather find.

Did a giant impact 200 million years ago trigger a mass extinction and pave the way for the dinosaurs?

Analysis of fossilized wing scales suggests insect used bright hues to warn off predators.

A sonar mapping cruise taken in June to the Baltimore, Washington and Norfolk Canyons and selected regions of the continental shelf revealed steep escarpments that probably pose no tsunami hazard

Palaeontologists use computer neural network and satellite images to work out where to dig.

Limb analysis suggests dinosaurs moved with short, fast strides.

This three-dimensional CT scan has unraveled a number of mysteries surrounding a two-millennia-old mummy—although not the mummy itself.

Fossils, climate records and DNA reveal unpredictability of ice-age die-offs.

A doctoral student performed acoustic archaeology to determine how music could have been properly appreciated in a cavernous 16th-century church. Sarah Fecht reports

Fracturing a deep shale layer one time to release natural gas might pose little risk to drinking-water supplies, but doing so repeatedly could be problematic

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