Moss Doesn't Lie. Four Grave Robbers Found That Out the Hard Way.
Cemetery workers moved 1,500 bones and had a solid alibi. Then the FBI asked a museum botanist what a tiny clump of moss had been doing underground for the past year.
History
Ancient Romanian Megastructure Has No Obvious Boss
Archaeologists excavated a 6,200-year-old structure in Romania three to five times larger than every house around it, built by a culture with no kings and no palaces.
A WWII Navy Blimp Landed Itself in a California Suburb. The Crew Was Gone.
Someone Served Neandertal Women for Dinner. Researchers Finally ID'd the Guests.
Bones from a Belgian cave reveal targeted cannibalism of outsider Neandertal women and children 45,000 years ago — and what that selectivity says about who Neandertals really were.
The People Who Built Teotihuacan Told Their Story. Archaeologists Are Just Learning to Read It.
A city of 125,000 people, monumental pyramids, and pottery covered in symbols that need decoding.
Lake Huron Hides an Ancient Civilization
Beneath Lake Huron stone hunting structures sit undisturbed, built on a land bridge that vanished 9,000 years ago.
A Medieval Surgeon Tried to Save a Pregnant Woman. The Grave Tells Her Story.
A 1,300-year-old grave in Italy holds a woman who underwent a risky brain surgery and a baby that shares an unexpected place in the coffin.
Ancient Clay Jar Might Be a Battery. Or a Prayer Box. Possibly Both.
A 2,000-year-old clay jar. Copper, iron, a sealed chamber. New research says it could've powered something. Experts say it probably held a prayer. Could it have been doing both?