DNA analysis of ancient remains from northwestern China has unveiled a chilling picture of ritualized sacrifice in a 4,000-year-old Neolithic society, where men and women met drastically different ...

The burial site was 4,500 years old, but archaeology society members saw enough evidence to believe it was already in use ...

Archaeologists from the Kecskeméti Katona József Museum have made a sensational discovery near Akasztó in Hungary's Bács-Kiskun county - three elite warrior burials dating to the 920s-930s that ...

The waters of Lake Issyk-Kul have hidden an important Silk Road city ever since an earthquake shifted the region’s landscape.

Archaeologists have uncovered what is believed to be the world’s oldest sculpture showing a human interacting with an animal - a tiny 12,000-year-old clay figure of a woman carrying a goose on her ...

It's linked to the religious figure of Abraham, who Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all trace their origins to.

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

(See Cover) Even as his spaceships reach toward the future and the stars, modern man is more concerned than ever with his past on his own planet. From China to Peru, diggers are everywhere. And ...

Archaeologists discovered 6,000-year-old flint tools beneath the Palace of Westminster that predate Stonehenge, along with medieval artifacts and Roman remains.

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Sometimes, it takes the very newest technology to find traces of humanity's ancient past. That's the premise that has guided Sarah Parcak in her career as an archaeologist who relies on remote sensing ...

Join a small, faith-infused program that prioritizes hands-on learning. You might do research at the internationally -known Umm el-Jimal Project in Jordan , or learn in Calvin's cutting-edge ...