Evidence of 77,000-year-old sleeping mats  made from plants has been found in South Africa’s Sibudu Cave. “It is unlikely that this site was occupied for more than a few weeks at a single stretch. The rock shelter would have been abandoned when food supplies became low, or when the site became unpleasant to live in […]

Yesterday was the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. To mark the occasion, NPR’s Here & Now host Robin Young interviewed ARCHAEOLOGY deputy editor Samir S. Patel about the magazine’s special article on the archaeology of World War II. A mummified cat has been found bricked into the wall of a cottage in […]