Megan Gannon

Lethal weapons could explain head injuries archaeologists see in Neolithic human remains.

Women did a lot of the heavy lifting during the Neolithic era.

The shipwreck divers also found a crystal carving of a head from the Roman-era.

Created in 1593, the manuscript has been acquired by the U.S. Library of Congress.

A new study shows how poor climate conditions can set off a chain of events that leads to mass migration.

Scholars are still debating whether the 13 fragments are legitimate scraps of the ancient Hebrew Bible or modern forgeries.

Archaeologists have identified what may be the world's oldest images of dogs. The 8,000-year-old hunting scenes even feature some dogs on leashes.

The Polish composer likely died of tuberculosis complications.

Scientists created fully functional skin for a 7-year-old boy with a genetic skin disease. Here's how they accomplished the medical feat.

Conservators have restored a rare map of Australia, from the era before Europeans had fully explored the continent.

A small, repaired hole in the painting allowed researchers to confirm the artwork as Nazi loot.

Forensic scientists rejected cancer as Pablo Neruda's immediate cause of death, which may fuel speculations that the Chilean poet was assassinated.

Surprisingly, adult jellyfish survive the winter under the Arctic's thick sea ice.

In northeastern Germany, archaeologists have discovered a battlefield, more than 3,000 years old, along the banks of the Tollense Valley.

At Europe's oldest battlefield, archaeologists found new clues about who fought on the skeleton-strewn grounds some 3,250 years ago.

A new study of human bones found no trace of Native American DNA on the island. Debate over pre-European cultural mash-ups continues.

Archaeologists found a copper blade in Switzerland that's just like the ax Ötzi the famous "Iceman" was carrying when he died.

Three scientists who were integral in detecting these so-called gravitational waves for the first time were awarded this year's Nobel Prize in physics this morning.

Plastic made the mass migration possible.

Three scientists who made key discoveries on the workings of our internal clock have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

Archaeologists recently found an unexpected preference for pinkish gold in Colombian jewelry from the first millennium.

A new species of rat, measuring 18 inches long, has been discovered in the South Pacific, the first time in 80 years a new rat species has been found there.

The jar might have been a funeral offering to feed the dead in the afterlife.

Archaeologists found more than 60 ancient graves in a Bronze Age cemetery in Jerusalem. In one they found a jar full of the remains of decapitated toads.

For the first time, the private spaceflight company Stratolaunch tested all six of the engines on a colossal airplane with the largest wingspan of any aircraft in the world.