Archaeology

Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered seven well-preserved footprints belonging to humans. Dated to around…

The unusual placement of a sword found in a Viking grave suggests the weapon was brandished by a southpaw warrior,…

Monkeys recovered from an ancient Egyptian pet cemetery have been traced back to India. The compassionate burials,…

Using high-resolution, 3D X-ray scans, a team of researchers has digitally unwrapped and analyzed three mummified…

Archaeologists from South Africa have uncovered rudimentary beds that early humans made by placing bundles of grass…

Archaeologists in Bolivia have recovered a fully intact underwater Inca offering containing a miniature llama…

The origin of the largest stones used to build Stonehenge has been a matter of considerable debate for centuries,…

Archaeological discoveries in a Mexican cave suggest humans reached North America some 30,000 years ago, which is a…

Her unsettling, seemingly agonized facial expression gave this ancient Egyptian mummy the nickname “screaming…

Ramps at ancient Greek healing temples provided access for people with disabilities, according to new research. If…

For archaeologists, ancient bones and stone tools are important lines of evidence, but sometimes the answers to our…

Preparatory work for a high-speed rail project in Britain has resulted in some interesting archaeological…

Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered the well-preserved remains of a cat that died over 1,000 years ago…

Indigenous South Americans reached islands in the South Pacific some 300 years before Christopher Columbus landed in…

Underwater caves in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula have yielded evidence of a prehistoric ochre mine, in a discovery…

Road crews in Poland stumbled upon a lost 16th-century cemetery, in which the vast majority of graves belong to…

In 2011, Swedish archaeologists found human skulls that had been mounted on stakes at an 8,000-year-old burial site,…

An unusually powerful volcanic eruption in 43 BCE has been linked to political upheaval on the other side of the…

A surprisingly large pit structure has been discovered around Durrington Walls Henge, which is less than 2 miles…

Evidence of incest and inbreeding has been uncovered at an elite prehistoric Irish burial site, in a new paper that…