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"We built this city on good cacao" does have a nice ring to it.

"Mummified remains sold online exhibit signs of biodeterioration, yet sellers provide no safety guidance."

Practices shifted from individuals buried in coffins to reusing sites for later mummy interments.

Also: Cyborg diving suits for cockroaches, why sleepy sperm whales blow bubbles, Betelgeuse's companion star.

NatGeo's Pompeii: Out of Time fuses historical fact and imagination to bring city's last 24 hours to life.

The Quest shipwreck is in worse shape than expected, but it has turned into a thriving marine ecosystem.

If Homo floresiensis wasn't a fire-using hunter, its origins could be different than we thought.

An optimal ratio of 10-15 grams of larvae per gram of specimen minimized cleaning time with no bone damage.

"There is no natural explanation," says paleoanthropologist John Hawks.

We can't blame the Neolithic Transition for the plague anymore.

Archaeologists found apparent scrape marks inside a skull; long bones may have been sharpened into tools.

What’s the difference between a person, an artifact, and an ecosystem?

Neanderthals had some wild stuff in their toolkits.

Prehistoric mining in the Pyrenees, a new species of tiny blue octopus, slapstick acoustics, and more.