A Great Wall excavation in China uncovers the largest known cannon in the Jiankou section and evidence of early cultural ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...

Archaeologists suspect the ancient society carried out two types of human sacrifices – one that involved mass burials of men ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 4th-century BC sacrificial complex at an ancient necropolis in Russia’s Southern Urals.

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 ...

Archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology at the Russian Academy of Sciences have made an extraordinary discovery at the Vysokaya Mogila-Studenikin Mar necropolis in Russia's Orenburg Region - ...

Poverty Point, a 3,500-year-old earthen mound, is a well-researched UNESCO World Heritage Site, but a pair of studies ...

Ultimately, these 573 fortresses redefine what we know about northern China’s prehistory. Long before the first emperors unified the land, people were already experimenting with civilization, laying ...

The National Museum in Damascus is one of the most significant cultural institutions in the Middle East. Its extensive ...

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...

Tommaso Ciampolini's explosively fast Affinity deck '8 cast' is as close to budget as Magic: the Gathering gets at this power ...

“Echoes of the Andes” opened at the library this July in collaboration with the Andean Cultural Center of Rhode Island and ...