A 13-year-old girl helped unearth an ancient Roman town. She's finally getting credit for it over 90 years later.

Tech Insider
A girl in a plaid dress and braids excavated an Ancient Roman town in the 1930s
At 13, Helen Carlton-Smith took part in excavating Verulamium and kept a diary of the dig.

Photographs from the Verulamium Excavations of the 1930s ©St Albans Museums

A 4,000-year-old lipstick uncovered in Iran may be the oldest ever found. It's uncannily similar to modern ones.

Tech Insider
A picture shows a stone container next to a close up up pigment.
This stone tube was found to contain pigment that may have been an early lip paint, said researchers.

M. Vidale, F. Zorzi/Eskandari et al Sci Rep 14, 2670 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52490-w. CC BY 4.0

Stone Age Megastructure Found at the Bottom of the Baltic Sea

Gizmodo : Environment

Divers working off the coast of Rostock, Germany, have found the broken-up remains of a wall on the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Researchers believe the Stone Age construction is over 10,000 years old, potentially making it the oldest human megastructure in Europe, and was likely used to herd prey during hunts.

Read more...

'Intellectually inferior' humans caused Neanderthals to go extinct, a new book claims

Tech Insider
An artistic interpretation of how a Neanderthal man would have looked, with long hair and a beard
An exhibit of a Neanderthal man at the Neanderthal Museum in Croatia.

REUTERS/Nikola Solic

Human bones unearthed from a German cave have altered the timeline of ancient human history

Tech Insider
Ancient human bone fragment against a black background with 1 cm ruler for scale
Researchers extracted ancient human bone fragments from the Ilsenhöhle cave in Ranis, Germany.

Tim Schüler / TLDA

Egypt is renovating one of its ancient pyramids using granite, and some heritage experts are horrified

Tech Insider
A csreenshot from a video shared by Dr Mostafa Waziri, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Activities, on January 29 2024, showing the base of the Mankaure pyramid at Giza partially cladded in granite.
A screenshot from a video shared by Mostafa Waziri, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Activities, on January 29, 2024, showing the base of the Mankaure pyramid at Giza partially clad in granite.

Dr Mostafa Waziri

Napoleon stranded a bunch of scientists in Egypt and now we have modern archaeology

Tech Insider
A still from the movie shows Joaquim Pheonix portraying Napoleon looking away from the camera as troops move through the desert in the background.
Joaquin Phoenix played "Napoleon" in Ridley Scott's last biopic.

Apple TV+

Ancient human DNA suggests Columbus may not have brought syphilis to Europe after all

Tech Insider
a picture shows ancient bones in situ in gravelly soil. The skeleton's shins are folded back against the person's chest.
Ancient remains dating back around 2,000 years suggest a cousin of syphilis spread around South America then, but not the sexually transmitted kind.

Dr. Jose Filippini

Peruvian researchers rule out aliens as the creators of 2 mysterious dolls

Tech Insider
A scientist in a white coat holds a small humanoid figurine made of paper, glue, and animal bones.
Forensic archaeologist Flavio Estrada from Peru's prosecutor's office shows a doll, which was seized by authorities before it was shipped to Mexico, during a press conference to explain what it is made of at the Archeology Museum in Lima, Peru.

Martin Mejia via AP

A mysterious note was discovered in the secret pocket of a dress from the 1880s. A decade later, someone finally cracked the code.

Tech Insider
Three view of a bronze silk dress from the 1880s from different angles
Sara Rivers Cofield found a hidden pocket in this dress from the 1880s, containing what was once thought to be an unsolvable code.

Sara Rivers Cofield

Subscribe to Archaeology