Historians have long speculated that punishing conditions in Jamestown – the first permanent English settlement in the Americas – may have driven some of its residents to cannibalism. Now, archeologists say they've uncovered their first hard evidence of colonial anthrophagy: the hacked-at remains of a teenage girl,…

There's something unsettling about a whole town that's just been abandoned. Whether due to a natural disaster, or an economic avalanche, sometimes whole communities wind up standing empty, with nothing but crumbling structures to commemorate the people who called them home.

The Umbaran starfighters from Star Wars: The Clone Wars have an unusual shape — even for a ship in the Star Wars universe. And that shape reminded some paleontologists of something: It looks very similar to the cervical vertebra from an apatosaurus, as they wrote in the blog Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week.

You know what's rare? Woolly mammoth skeletons. You know what's even rarer? Beautifully preserved, near-complete, French woolly mammoth skeletons. Archaeologists just dug up the latter.

Romans may have used 20-Sided die almost two millennia before D&D, but people in ancient Egypt were casting icosahedra even earlier. Pictured above is a twenty-faced die dating from somewhere between 304 and 30 B.C., a timespan also known as Egypt's Ptolemaic Period.

Between six and seven thousand years ago, salt was every bit as valuable as gold; and the inhabitants of this ancient, heavily guarded settlement (recently named the oldest ever discovered in Europe) were swimming in the stuff.

A three-year-old female black labrador cross named Migaloo has become the world's first trained archeology dog. Working with Brisbane dog expert Gary Jackson, she is expected to help archeologists uncover ancient grave sites across Australia. And looking to the future, it's expected that Migaloo and other archeology…

There's a whole period in the evolution of modern insects that's pretty much a blank, thanks to a gaping hole in the fossil records. The so called Hexapoda Gap runs from 385 million years ago to 325 million years ago. It's right around when the insect world changed from the old, wingless insects to the incredible…

National Geographic is reporting on the remarkable discovery and analysis of a 1,600 year old ancient Maya temple in Guatemala. Called the Temple of the Night Sun, it features a series of striking stone monuments, including various depictions of the Maya sun god as a shark, jaguar, and blood drinker. Archaeologists…

Archeologists studying the remains of early humans in Africa have unveiled a number of ancient artifacts that push back the advent of modern culture to 44,000 years ago — way earlier than the previous estimates of 22,000 years ago.