Archaeology

Stories filed under Archaeology in the Weird Science History archive — 18 stories from the strange edge of science.

• The Teenagers Who Found a 20,000-Year-Old Art Gallery
• Göbekli Tepe: The Temple Built Before Farming, Writing, or the Wheel
• The Petrified Giant That Was a Fake of a Fake
• Piltdown Man: The Fake Fossil That Fooled Science for 40 Years
• The Roman Concrete That Heals Its Own Cracks
• The Runaway Goat That Led to the Dead Sea Scrolls
• The Stone Age Skull Surgery With a Higher Survival Rate Than the Civil War's
• The Library Burned by Vesuvius That AI Is Finally Reading
• The Buried Army Found by Farmers Digging a Well
• The Circus Strongman Who Found Egypt's Greatest Tomb
• The Copper Tools That Scraped History Off the Parthenon Marbles
• Kon-Tiki: The Raft That Crossed an Ocean to Prove a Theory That Was Wrong
• The 5,300-Year-Old Iceman Whose Tattoos May Have Been Medicine
• The 2,000-Year-Old Computer Found in a Shipwreck
• The 3,000-Year-Old Pants That Were Invented for Horseback Riding
• The 5,700-Year-Old Chewing Gum That Held an Entire Human Genome
• The Angry Customer Complaint That Survived 3,750 Years
• The Baghdad Battery: The 2,000-Year-Old 'Battery' That Probably Never Held a Charge

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