Archaeology

Archaeologists may have finally figured out how a 5,300-year-old skull ended up on the ledge of a deep vertical cave…

Despite the amount of history that sits atop its soil, plenty of stories remain buried below Colonial Williamsburg.…

A fragment of 10,000-year-old dog bone found along the Alaskan coast could be the oldest evidence of domesticated…

Archaeologists have discovered a 17,300-year-old painting of a kangaroo at a rock shelter in Western Australia,…

The forensic analysis of a 3,600-year-old mummy is providing fascinating new insights into a pivotal Egyptian…

Archaeologists in Britain have discovered the site of a former stone circle in west Wales, which they believe was…

The seashell has been collecting dust on a museum shelf in Toulouse for the past 80 years, and before that, it had…

European-crafted glass beads found at three different indigenous sites in northern Alaska date back to the…

Around 50,000 years ago, a bunch of Neanderthals made a home—and a bathroom—out of what is now a rocky escarpment…

Archaeologists investigating burial shafts near Alexandria, Egypt have discovered over a dozen interred individuals,…

The discovery of a hardened mud carapace wrapped around a 3,200-year-old mummy has brought a previously unknown…

Prehistoric teeth found over 100 years ago are some of the best evidence yet for hybridized communities of…

The human thumb is a marvel of evolution, allowing our ancestors to craft stone tools and radically expand their…