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Archaeology

Well-Preserved, 2,500-Year-Old Marijuana Found at Chinese Tomb

Weed has been popular for awhile.

Eric Grundhauser October 5, 2016

Found: A Goddess Statue That's 8,000 Years Old

It may have represented an elderly woman.

Sarah Laskow September 29, 2016

Nestled in the caves

Silver City, New Mexico

Gila Cliff Dwellings

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

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Kayenta, Arizona

Mystery Valley

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

Found: The World's Oldest Sewing Needle

And it wasn't made by Homo sapiens.

Eric Grundhauser August 24, 2016

Found: An Ancient Mexican Codex-Within-a-Codex

Researchers used lightwaves to discover a hidden palimpsest.

Eric Grundhauser August 22, 2016

Found: A 19th Century Sword Tip at the Alamo's Southern Wall

It would have belonged to a Mexican officer.

Sarah Laskow August 15, 2016

The World's Oldest Gold Artifact Was Just Found

Archaeologists say it's from 4,500 to 4,600 B.C.

Erik Shilling August 12, 2016

Tomb and Skeleton Unearthed, Offering New Evidence of the Ancient Snake Dynasty

Archaeology is exciting.

Eric Grundhauser August 8, 2016

Found: A 3,000-Year-Old Ball of Yarn

It's very delicate.

Sarah Laskow July 29, 2016

Wheel of the FT Barney

Alpena, Michigan

Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

The Sunken City of Baia

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

Marking the outline of the Arabia; 45 feet deep and about the length of a football field.

How a Champagne-Laden Steamship Ended Up in a Kansas Cornfield

The steamboat Arabia carried 200 tons of treasure when it sank in 1856.

Luke Spencer July 20, 2016

A diver passes by rock formations

Atlit Yam

Submerged ruins of a Neolithic coastal settlement, where houses, wells, graves and skeletons have been unearthed.

Iowa City Is Using Lasers To Map Its Abandoned Beer Caves

Beer and lasers.

Eric Grundhauser June 22, 2016

Petroglyph known as "the zipper"

Parowan Gap Petroglyphs

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

At Grimes Point

Hidden Cave at Grimes Point

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

Laser Technology Reveals Cambodian Civilization that 'Rewrites History'

The Khmer empire may have been the world's largest in the 12th century.

Jessie Guy-Ryan June 12, 2016