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Row after row of skulls
Lima, Peru

The Room of 10,000 Ancient Skulls

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.
Experts walk through Minute Man National Park, as part of the Parker's Revenge Project's Military Tactical Review.
archaeology

How a Team of Reenactors Helped Solve a Revolutionary War Mystery

Led by archaeologist Meg Watters, the Parkers Revenge Project reconstructed a crucial battle on the first day of the Revolutionary War.
Cara Giaimo December 23, 2016
Cartagena, Spain

Roman Theatre of Cartagena

An ancient Roman theatre restored to its former glory in the Spanish city of Cartegena.
A piece of pottery dating to the late 6th century B.C.
abandoned

Found: A Lost City in Greece

No one realized how extensive these ruins were.
Sarah Laskow December 13, 2016
Cat skeletons found buried in the graveyard.
animals

Found: A 2,000-Year-Old Cemetery Full of Pet Cats

At least 86 were buried here.
Sarah Laskow November 30, 2016
archaeology

Found: The First Mausoleum Where a 'Miracle' Viking King Was Buried

Olaf Haraldsson is also the patron saint of Norway.
Erik Shilling November 23, 2016
The dentures were found in the tomb of a powerful family.
churches

Found: Centuries-Old Dentures Made From Real Teeth

They were worn by someone very rich.
Sarah Laskow November 22, 2016
archaeology

Found: A 7,300-Year-Old Fingerprint Left on a Shard of Clay

It's one of the oldest human fingerprints ever discovered.
Sarah Laskow November 21, 2016
Little Petra, Jordan.
Petra District, Jordan

Little Petra

A more chill but no less fascinating version of the famous ancient archeological site.
The Treasure
Villena, Spain

Treasure of Villena

A significant cache of prehistoric valuables is on display in an unassuming museum tucked inside a town hall.
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
London, England

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.
The panorama of the Lost City. The round clearings, where houses once sat, extend down the sides of the mountains. Many believe that only a small portion of the Lost City has been excavated at this point.
archaeology

A Visual Tour Through Colombia's Ancient Lost City

It's 650 years older than Machu Picchu.
Gena Steffens November 14, 2016
Apatosaurus trackway
La Junta, Colorado

Picketwire Canyon Trackway

The largest dinosaur trackway in North America is tucked away among this canyon's ghosts and archaeological gems.
Stone Circles at Odry
Odry, Poland

The Stone Circles at Odry

Deep in a Polish forest, this collection of Iron Age megaliths still holds onto many of its ancient secrets.
A close up of the mineral vivianite on a piece of bone.
31 days of halloween

The Vivid Blue Mineral That Grows on Buried Bodies and Confuses Archaeologists

Just mix together a dead person, some iron, and lots of water.
Chris Drudge October 25, 2016
A postcard from Marineland, where Lamme worked in the '40s.
archaeology

Stolen Artifacts! Drunk Teens! And More True Tales of Florida's First State Archaeologist

Vernon Lamme was not your average archaeologist.
Sarah Laskow October 19, 2016
Dong Van Karst Plateau Geopark
Đồng Văn, Vietnam

Dong Van Karst Plateau

This striking landscape in northern Vietnam contains both geological and archaeological wonders.
food

Found: A 1,600-Year-Old Oven With Food Still Inside

Yum?
Sarah Laskow October 7, 2016