Archaeologists excavating a cave in the mountains of central Mexico have unearthed evidence that people occupied the area more than 30,000 years ago — suggesting that humans arrived in North America at least 15,000 years earlier than thought. Image: Devlin A. Gandy
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Ancient Egypt’s first “foreign” takeover may actually have been an inside job. About 3600 years ago, the pharaohs briefly lost control of northern Egypt to the Hyksos, rulers who looked and behaved like people from southwest Asia. But the Hyksos were Egyptian-born members of an immigrant community. Image: A.D. Riddle Photograph
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Queen Anne’s Revenge, the ship that helped the pirate Blackbeard gain fame and fortune, was in poor shape and prone to leaking, a new analysis has revealed. The discovery could explain the vessel’s fate, as Blackbeard may have deliberately run it aground to avoid the headache of keeping it afloat. Image: Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
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As unlikely as it might sound, our future health and happiness might be secured by humble bacteria that can pull carbon dioxide from the air, grow greener food and clean up pollution. Image: NIAID
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Fifteen years ago, Mark Norell came across a clutch of dinosaur eggs in southern Mongolia. Frozen in place were at least a dozen embryos of the Triceratops relative Protoceratops. But “something weird” was going on, says the paleontologist, who works at the American Museum of Natural History. Image: M. ELLISON/© AMNH
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