New reconstruction of the Antikythera Mechanism (Image: 2020 Tony Freeth)
The Antikythera Mechanism, discovered in an ancient shipwreck in 1901, is considered to be the...
The "Faustina" baptized antique woman's head. (Image: Universalmuseum Joanneum / B. Schliber-Knechtl)
In 1967 the artistically crafted marble head of a woman was found...
Reconstruction of the hearing system in a modern human (left) and a Neanderthal man (right). (Image: Mercedes Conde-Valverde)
How did our archaic cousins communicate...
The four-wheeled ceremonial carriage at the site. (Image: Parco Archeologico di Pompei)
In recent years, excavations in a suburb of ancient Pompeii have repeatedly...
This picture of a kangaroo was made in northwest Australia over 17,000 years ago. (Image: Illustration: Pauline Heaney)
Researchers have identified a two-meter-tall kangaroo...
These glass beads made in Venice reached northern Alaska before 1492. (Image: Courtesy of American Antiquity, January 2021)
Even before America's discovery, Venetian glass...