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.
Two texts made on different continents could help reveal the history of printing.
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.
The cave contains more than 1,000 artworks spanning over 50,000 years.
The temporary exhibit includes 250 painted sarcophagi and 150 bronze statues of ancient Egyptian deities.
2,000-year-old DNA is revealing more about the people who died during the fateful eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
A 3,000-year-old cremation site in Italy offers evidence it was in use for generations.
The new fossil suggests the Denisovans—a lost human species—could live in a wide range of habitats.
The holes were dug over millennia and may have been used for hunting.
The mud glyphs are over 1,000 years old and include humanoid figures, abstract shapes, and an 11-foot-long serpent.
Bits of a 2,200-year-old mural may be some of the earliest examples of this dating system.
At an estimated 9.5 magnitude, the ancient megathrust earthquake would rank as one of the strongest on record.
The complex funerary rituals of the 9,000 year-old city of Çatalhöyük are revealed in a new study.
New research points to a pre-Clovis peopling of the Americas.
What was thought to be a military port is actually something much more intriguing, new research suggests
