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The Fincha Habera rock shelter, the earliest high-altitude habitation site in Africa.
science

In Ethiopia, Ancient Humans Lived on Thin Air and Giant Mole-Rats

The earliest high-altitude settlement in Africa came as a surprise.
Isaac Schultz August 13, 2019
Paleontologist Jean-Bernard Caron and <em>Cambroraster</em> in the Canadian Rockies.
fossils

Found: A Spaceship-Shaped, 500-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature

High-altitude fossils from the deep, deep past.
Isaac Schultz August 5, 2019
The ceremonial wedding ring found in the wall of a confectionary shop in Alsace.
hidden

These Hidden Treasures Hold Clues About Jewish Life in Medieval France

Found in 1863 but not displayed till now, they spent 500 years concealed in a wall.
Evan Nicole Brown July 31, 2019
The helmet and headdress of the Bersted Man will be on display for the first time.
archaeology

Found: A Mysterious Warrior From Late Iron Age England

Some associate him with a real-life Asterix, though less successful in resisting the Romans.
Isaac Schultz July 30, 2019
Some of the treasures found in the pilfered wallets.
churches

Found: 15 Wallets From the 1940s, Stolen and Stashed Behind a Bathroom Wall

The cash is gone, but a lot of memories remain.
Matthew Taub July 10, 2019
It's not clear whether these landscapes are real or imagined.
paintings

Found: Very Old Paintings on the Fancy Vault Doors of Wyoming’s Capitol Building

Rugged mountains and peaceful streams were hidden under layers of brown paint.
Jessica Leigh Hester July 8, 2019
The 16th-century Bradgate House, in the East Midlands, was one of England's first brick buildings.
archaeology

Found: The Original Home of England's Doomed '9-Day Queen'

Stone structures beneath Bradgate House may be the real birthplace of Lady Jane Grey.
Jonathan Carey July 1, 2019
Elsie Wolff Van Sandau's medal in its original case, as it was found in the drawer.
mystery

Found: A British Suffragette's Protest Medal in a Bureau Drawer

No one knows how this piece of history ended up there.
Matthew Taub June 28, 2019
They look familiar...
found

In the Bronze Age, People Labored Over Cereal That No One Ate

They probably used the Cheerio-like rings in rituals, not the kitchen.
Sabrina Imbler June 10, 2019
The nest as it was found.
insects

Found: The First Bee's Nest Made Entirely of Plastic

Researchers in Argentina found the synthetic nest by chance.
Evan Nicole Brown June 6, 2019
A page of the Navajo Treaty from the copy in the National Archives.
native americans

The Historic Treaty That Ended Navajo Imprisonment Has Been Returned

One of just two copies thought to survive is back in Navajo Nation.
Evan Nicole Brown June 4, 2019
The water was found inside a sediment core from the Maldives archipelago.
science

Found: 20,000-Year-Old Seawater From the Ice Age

It was stored inside limestone beneath the seafloor.
Matthew Taub May 30, 2019
The refurbished circus poster today, under glass.
architecture

A Wisconsin Bar Had an Enormous 1885 Circus Poster Hidden Within Its Walls

It wasn't meant to survive nearly that long.
Evan Nicole Brown May 21, 2019
It's believed these jars once held bodies before burial.
mystery

Found: A New Plain of Massive Stone Jars in Laos, Used to Store the Dead

The society responsible for them remains a mystery.
Jonathan Carey May 21, 2019
The Klasies River Cave.
caves

Found: The Earliest Evidence of Humans Cooking and Eating Starch

We were eating rhizomes and tubers as early as 120,000 years ago.
Matthew Taub May 20, 2019
A sample of the particles discovered on the beaches of Japan's Motoujina Peninsula.
atom bombs

Found: Glass Fallout From the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

The particles have covered nearby beaches, unnoticed, for nearly 75 years.
Matthew Taub May 15, 2019
An illustrated reconstruction of what the tomb may have looked like before it decayed.
music

This Could Be England's Earliest Known Christian Burial

Sixteen years of research have revealed the secrets of a major excavation.
Matthew Taub May 13, 2019
A tubeworm growing from under an outcrop, surrounded by other deep sea species.
atlantic

Found: For the First Time, Deep Sea Tube Worms Near the U.S. East Coast

You never know what you'll find when you turn over a rock.
Jonathan Carey May 10, 2019