Archaeology

3D virtual reconstruction of the facial bones and their mirror image.

Bone fragments discovered in Spanish cave are putting a face to the earliest ancient humans to arrive in Western Europe, more than a million years ago.

Archaeologists have discovered a large collection of ancient tools crafted out of hippopotamus and elephant bones, pushing back the age of bone tool kits made by ancient humans a million years.

In the 1800s a Russian explorer took 16 human skulls from Papua New Guinea to prove a theory. Now they've finally been returned home.

The famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius that wiped out Pompeii and Herculaneum created a super-heated ash cloud that turned one unlucky man's brain to glass, a new study suggests.

The ancient tomb near Luxor belonged to King Thutmost II, and is the first to be discovered since King Tutankhamen's in 1922.

King Thutmose II's tomb was the last lost tomb of Egypt's 18th Dynasty kings and the first royal tomb discovered since King Tutankhamen in 1922.

Faded signs and advertisements from a bygone era are hidden in plain sight across many parts of Australia. After stumbling upon one in Melbourne, cultural archaeologist Sean Reynolds went on a mission to uncover the stories behind them.

The whereabouts of South Sea Islanders believed to have been buried on a hospital site in North Queensland in the late 1800s remains a mystery after a ground-penetrating radar search failed.

A South Australian teacher who collected hundreds of objects starting in the 1960s is now trying to sell them, but Indigenous leaders say they should instead be put on display in a "keeping place" that doesn't yet exist.

After workers dug up two skeletons at a Hobart school's hockey field it was believed there would likely be more, with the location being an old graveyard.

Graveyard underneath Hobart's Hutchins School.

After workers dug up two skeletons at a Hobart school's hockey field it was believed there would likely be more, with the location being an old graveyard. But the scale of what the archaeological team found was staggering — and the job of putting names to the many bones was "like a giant puzzle".

Reconstruction of Mount Vesuvius Eruption, Pompeii Exhibition

The Pompeii exhibition at the National Museum of Australia uses immersive audiovisual elements alongside artefacts to show attendees what life may have been like.

While Neanderthals and modern humans lived together in Europe for only a relatively short time, two separate studies found inter-species breeding took place from around 50,000 years ago.

Council workers were excavating a gravel pit near Longreach in Queensland when they came across a human skull which traditional custodians say will remain in place.

The Wagonga lady is one of more than 1,700 ancestors returned to Australia from overseas collections in the past three decades, but many more remain to be found and returned.

An international study has found assumptions on the sex and relationships of individuals found in the ruins of the ancient Roman city buried in a volcanic eruption were not based on scientific evidence.

The child's father says he thought "please let that not be my child" after hearing a crash while touring artefacts in the Hecht Museum with his family.