During restorations at the Palace of Westminster in London, excavations have revealed a trove of historic objects, the oldest ...

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

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

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.

RIYADH, Dec 2: Kuwait is showcasing 25 artifacts at the GCC Joint Archaeology Exhibition, currently on display at the Saudi ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 - ...

As the Christmas season fills the air with joy and anticipation, a historic church in Kotri's Railway Colony is being ...

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