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A jumping spider in Manila, Philippines.

Wonder Is Everywhere: Spider Wrestling, the Return of the Giant Peanut, and More from Around the Web

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April White August 4, 2023

Podcast: Dmanisi

An archaeological site in Georgia challenges what we think we know about the deep human past.

The Podcast Team August 2, 2023

Petroglyph Beach

Archaeologists believe this panel of petroglyphs depicting descending sheep and other figures in Glen Canyon are 3,000 to 6,000 years old.

A large stone 3 and 2-story building with arched windows

Weiler Building

A former military hospital is now used to study and preserve artifacts of the Acropolis.

Podcast: The Complaint Tablet of Ea-Nasir

Turns out, beefing about bad service really is as old as time.

The Podcast Team July 12, 2023

Blood Falls seeps from the end of the Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney.

Wonder Is Everywhere: The Mystery of Blood Falls, a Carrier Pigeon Comeback, and More from Around the Web

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April White July 7, 2023

Katherine Moore (left) shows vessels for storing and serving food from Pachacámac at the exhibit.

How to Trace Food History With Ancient Leftovers

The Penn Museum's new exhibit showcases the art of edible archaeology.

Sam O'Brien June 30, 2023

Helsinki, Finland

Pronssikautinen Hauta

One of the oldest structures in Helsinki is this burrow grave that dates back to the Bronze Age.

Utrecht, Netherlands

DOMunder Subterranean Ruins

Underground attraction offering tours of the foundational ruins of a church nave that collapsed in 1674.

In May, the massive sculpture sometimes called Monument 9, or an "Earth Monster," was repatriated to Mexico, where it had been looted years earlier.

An Olmec 'Earth Monster' Returns to Mexico

The repatriation of an ancient sculpture highlights the influential early Mesoamerican culture.

Karl Taube June 19, 2023

This seems like a perfectly reasonable way to decorate a home in a fancy neighborhood. Maybe?

Wonder Is Everywhere: A Fight Over Optimus Prime, the Richmond Rat Boy, and More From Around the Web

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April White June 9, 2023

The massive complex of Monte d'Accoddi on the island of Sardinia is nearly 6,000 years old.

This Mysterious Ziggurat Was an Ancient European Pilgrimage Site

Sardinia's 'mountain of stones,' Monte d'Accoddi, is nearly 6,000 years old.

Jeffrey Biggers May 24, 2023

The Bar Hill Comb was part of a collection of more than 280,000 artifacts recovered in Cambridgeshire, England, between 2016 and 2018.

In England, Bar Hill's 'Skull Comb' Is an Iron Age Mystery

The unusual artifact hints at how ancient communities may have treated their dead.

Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing May 17, 2023

Visakhapatnam, India

Thotlakonda

These hilltop ruins of a forgotten Buddhist monastery flourished in Antiquity from trade with the Roman Empire.

This ancient dodecahedron found in Avenches, Switzerland, once the Roman city of Aventicum.

objects of intrigue

The Mysterious Dodecahedrons of the Roman Empire

The first of many of these puzzling objects was unearthed almost three centuries ago, and we still don't know what they were for.

Frank Jacobs May 12, 2023

<em>Le Défenseur du temps</em>—<em>The Defender of Time</em>—has been reinstalled in the Quartier de l'Horloge in Paris. Throughout the day, the metal swordsman marks the passage of time by fighting off a dragon, a rooster, and a crab.

Wonder Is Everywhere: The Defender of Time, a Plan to Bomb the Moon, and More From Around the Web

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April White May 12, 2023

The pillar.

Pahlejpur, India

Eran Pillar of Goparaja

India's oldest sati stone, attributed to an otherwise unknown king of the ancient Gupta Empire.

Kamusongolwa Hill

Kasempa, Zambia

Kamusongolwa Hill

A hill outside of Kasempa is the location of a famous battle between the Kaonde and Lozi tribes.