The ancient animal may indicate a new story in Mesoamerican sociopolitics.
The natural mummy was discovered in the Italian Alps in 1991, about 5,300 years after 'Ötzi' died.
The 17-character sentence in Canaanite script appears on a 3,000-year-old comb found in Israel.
Now playing
A group of archeologists demands the return of the ancient artifact.
Save
Human remains found in two caves are more than 13,500 years old.
A sunken German vessel may have been leaking pollutants into the North Sea for the better part of a century.
First Nations artwork on the trees’ bark is at risk of being lost.
Our understanding of foxes and their relationship with humans is changing with new archaeological discoveries.
Save
Now below sea level, the workplaces and settlements were vital sites of salt production.
A group of archeologists has banded together to demand the return of the ancient slab.
Soil analysis from several Maya cities found levels of mercury that could harm health, and modern archaeologists…
One victim was stabbed, and the other was hit on the head, new research into the South American mummies finds.
The remains of a whaling ship called the Dolphin appear to have been found nearly 6,000 miles from home.
The discovery is the earliest known burial of its kind and the southernmost in South America.
The ancient mounds contain thousands of bones and burnt plant remains.
The House of the Lararium contains preserved fabrics, tableware, and other objects of daily life.
A pile of mammoth bones offers evidence that people were living in the region as early as 37,000 years ago.
The Hanseatic wreck contains 150 barrels of quicklime, a common building material at the time.
A new result challenges previous conclusions about the origin of the domesticated chicken.
These 900-year-old objects may have once been hand grenades, according to a recent study.