The fossilized footprints in New Mexico are at least 21,500 years old, corroborating a momentous 2021 result.
Unearthed in Zambia, the 476,000-year-old timber construction redefines our sense of early hominin ingenuity and craftsmanship.
The 1,900-year-old swords, discovered in exceptional condition alongside a pilum, may be a hidden cache that belonged to Judean rebels.
An ancestral human species faced a startling population bottleneck and teetered on the brink of extinction around 800,000 years ago, according to new research.
The burial site contained grave goods and the prehistoric individual’s intact skeleton.
Chemical analysis of the 2,000-year-old remains was manageable despite contamination of the remains from plaster casts.
Rock art figures in Gua Sireh Cave have been dated to around the 18th century.
The remains date to over 7,000 years ago, but not all of the individuals in the cave appear intentionally buried.
Scientists revisiting the famous mummy’s genome found he had dark skin and was probably bald in life.
SaxaVord Spaceport, on U.K.'s most northerly inhabited island, has unexpectedly yielded Bronze Age artifacts.
Chemical imaging of 3,100-year-old artwork is showing how ancient artists revised their work.
It’s well-painted, well-preserved, and very much not an actual depiction of a pizza. Still, flatbread shouldn’t have to apologize for not being as iconic.
After collecting dust for half a century, a superlatively ancient whodunnit has entered into the spotlight.
La Roche-Cotard in France was sealed in the ancient past, indicating another Homo species was responsible for the figures.
A team of archaeologists posit a unique theory about 12,000-year-old bird bones from the Levant, which appear to have been crafted into flutes.
Three newly found wrecks were studied and imaged, along with three previously known Roman wrecks.
New evidence from a cave in South Africa suggests Homo naledi , a distant human ancestor, was more complex than previously thought.
New troves of fish bones in eastern Beringia point to the early origins of freshwater fishing among some of the earliest North Americans.
An MIT study has found that lawyers can read legalese better than the average person, but that doesn't mean they like it.
4,000-year-old remains in Somerset and Cumbria carried the bacteria that causes plague.
