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,…

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…

A 1,000-year-old recipe to treat eye infections could lead to an unorthodox way of combating antibiotic resistance.

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…

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

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,…

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

Ancient bow-and-arrow technology dating back some 48,000 years has been discovered in a Sri Lankan cave, making it…

A 1,700-year-old board game, including rare elongated dice, dating back to the Roman Iron Age has been unearthed in…

For the first time ever, archaeologists have used ground-penetrating radar to map an entire city while it’s still…

The surprising discovery of a 2,800-year-old monumental structure in Tabasco, Mexico, is shaking our conceptions of…

Archaeologists in Israel have detected traces of cannabis on a 2,700-year-old altar found in an ancient Jewish…