Piotr Gorlach recently took his metal detector into Poland's Jarosław Forest, hoping to find military artifacts from World War I or II. Instead, he stumbled upon something much older. As he was ...

“For the Classic Maya, in many ways, clothing defined personhood,” says Alyce de Carteret, a fellow in Art of the Ancient Americas at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “Numerous aspects ...

New research has revealed early Iron Age artifacts recovered from ancient Polish burial sites include metal pieces forged from rare extraterrestrial iron. Culturally, this use may have contributed to ...

What do ancient Egyptian mummies really smell like? A team of researchers set out to determine whether their modern-day scent still reflects the embalming materials used in antiquity – and what ...

This positions southern Poland as one of the most meteoritic iron-saturated archaeological sites globally, on par with ancient Egyptian archaeological sites. The cemeteries are dated to the ...

and a pin unearthed at an ancient Polish cemetery contained meteoritic iron. “This modest number of specimens nevertheless forms one of the biggest collections of meteoritic iron products at one ...