Neanderthals and Denisovans interbred with modern human ancestors, leaving behind telltale DNA in our genomes. Now we have evidence of modern human interbreeding with two older but unknown ancestors

Ancient shipwreck with 600–650 trade Amphorae discovered off Andros

Ancient smallpox genomes reveal how European colonization brought the disease to the Americas

40,000-year-old bird figurines the size of a thumbnail discovered in a cave in Germany

Over 20,000 precolonial earthworks in the Southwest Amazonia

History Time (Pete Kelly) recently released a documentary covering The Amazon that I think adds some nice context for the recent LIDAR study

The Truth About King Alfred’s "Car Park" Discovery

Ancient ferns turned Triassic Europe into a wildfire inferno

Dinosaurs probably dined upon a variety of fruits and seeds

Bones reveal ancient Egyptian princesses born 4,000 years ago used weapons

Scientists just discovered a lost branch of Australia’s marsupials

Centuries before farming, hunter-gatherers introduced fish to the Norwegian mountains

Large precolonial villages in the Brazilian Cerrado practiced maize-based polyculture, evidence reveals

Scientists finally solved the mystery of Earth's greatest mass extinction: species whose metabolisms were less able to cope with warmer, oxygen poor water suffered the highest extinction rates

The real mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?

Tiny 149-Million-Year-Old Bird Rewrites the Story of Bird Evolution

Ancient teeth from Siberia rewrite the plague's timeline, dating back to over 5,500 years ago

Ancient Roman curse tablet deciphered by Heidelberg researchers

Bronze Age Pigeon Bones on Cyprus indicate Pigeons were semidomesticated as early as 1400 B.C. pushing the timeline 1000 years earlier than previously thought

Study finds that the fundamental frequency of The Great Pyramid protects it from earthquake damage