Fake Joan of Arc Remains

Early Modern Human Unearthed in China

Hidden Ramp Answer to Pyramid Puzzle?

Alexandria: Latest Discoveries

Powhatan's Settlement Found

Great Pyramid Built Inside-Out?

Did Santorini Eruption Scar Egypt

Human Ancestors May Have Looked More Ape-Like Than Thought

Greek Island Reveals Roman Tomb & Theater

Oldest Known Perfumes Found

Cavemen Were Chuby-Chasers

Using Llama Dung to Study Incan Downfall

Pollen: The Key to Finding Origin of China's Terracotta Army?

Monkeys May Have a Primitive Human-Style Culture

Portuguese Discovered Australia First?

Pakistan's Ancient Treasures Fading Away

Attempt to Revive a Dead Spanish Language

Headless Bodies Show Secrets of Early Pacific Culture

Pigs Throw New Light on Pacific Colonization

England: Roman Traces Found in Wiltshire Mound

Athenian Ruins May be Ancient Market

Gorillas Gave Pubic Lice to Early Humans

Massacres Common in Stone Age Britain

Gulf of Mexico's Submerged Ancient Shoreline to be Studied

2,200 Year Old Statue of Hera Discovered

Egypt: Latest Discoveries From City of the Dead

Rare Egyptian Wooden Statue Found

England: Chesire Hosted Gladiators

Mystery on the Bottom of a Florida Spring

Ancient Tree Frog Found in Amber

Clovis People not First Americans

Stone-Age Europeans Lactose Intolerant

Scholars Blast 'Jesus Tomb' as Fake

Pre-Incan Observatory is Oldest in Americas

Ancient Americans Loved Chili Peppers

Cows Tell Us That Etruscans May Have Come From Asia Minor

Egypt: Tomb From Ahkenaten Age Discovered

Was Cleopatra Ugly?

Italy Will Preserve "The Embrace"

Chimps Used Stone Tools 4,300 Years Ago

Peru: Fossil Smuggling on the Rise

Putting Looters to Work for Archaeologists

Crystal Helped Vikings Navigate in Bad Weather

Ancient Lovers Uncovered

Humans Never Had to Cope With 'Terror Birds'

Digging in the 'Hobbit' Cave

Yorkshire Surname May be Related to African Heritage

Spell May be Oldest Semitic Text Ever Discovered

8th Century Boat Found Off Coast of Israel

Strange Winds Blew During Last Ice Age

China: Many Archeological Finds at Olympic Venues

Brazil: More Isolated Indian Tribes Than Originally Believed

Making Others Laugh Turns You Into a Hottie

Petra is Finalist for 'New 7 Wonders' List

Skull Supports Human-Neanderthal Interbreeding

Stonehenge Had Company

Russian Site Pushes Back Date of Human Entry into Europe

Jamestown Well Yields Unexpected Findings

Forensic Tests to be Conducted on Joan of Arc's Ashes

Looking for Archeological Wonders...From Space

Roman Road Discovered in Netherlands

Japan Allows Limited Study of Royal Tombs

Climate Change May Have Destroyed Tang Dynasty—Another Blow to 'Global Warming' Theory

'Archeology' Magazine's Top 10 Stories of 2006

1. Valley of the Kings Tomb
KV63 was the first tomb to be excavated in the Valley of the Kings since Tutankhamun's in 1922. The chamber held seven 18th Dynasty coffins.

2. 3-Million-Year-Old Child
After years of chiseling tiny bones out of sandstone blocks from Ethiopia's Rift Valley, paleontologists announced the discovery of a nearly complete Australopithecus afarensis child (see "The New Face of Evolution").

3. Olmec Script
A stone block uncovered in the 1990s in Veracruz, Mexico, was shown to bear the first definitive proof that the ancient Olmec had a writing system, the oldest in the New World (see "What We Learn").

4. Irish Bog Psalms
In a peat bog near Dublin, bulldozer operator Eddie Fogarty found a book of Pslams, the first early medieval manuscript discovered in Ireland in 200 years.

5. Peru's Temple of the Fox Dating to 2200 B.C., an Andean templ
e was found with unprecedented astronomical alignments, including a facelike disk that frowns at the sunset on the first day of the harvest.

6. China's "Guest Worker"
DNA analysis of bones found near the tomb of Emperor Qin Shihuangdi (r. 247-221 B.C.) shows the remains belonged to a Persian man, likely a captive forced to work on the emperor's tomb (see "Worker from the West").

7. Tomb of the Roaring Lions
Grave robbers led Italian authorities to the oldest tomb paintings in the western Mediterranean. The seventh-century B.C. Etruscan scenes feature fanciful lions (see "Flights of Fancy").

8. Lost Kingdom of Tambora
The discovery of a modest house buried by an 1815 volcanic eruption in Indonesia presented the first evidence of the Kingdom of Tambora.

9. Scythian Mummy
A burial mound in the Mongolian Altai Mountains yielded the 2,500-year-old frozen remains of a blond Scythian warrior in full regalia.

10. Brazilian Stonehenge
A circle of some 130 granite blocks in the Brazilian state of Amapa was hailed as a possible 2,000-year-old winter solstice marker.

Smithsonian's History of Tattoos

Missouri's Ancient Fish Hook

Australia: Aborigines Now Believed to have Killed Off Ancient 'Mega Fauna'

First Known Religion Pushed Back 30,000 Years

Egypt: Meteorite Created Ancient Glass

Iran: Artificial Eye Dug Up

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