The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...
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 ...
A new study maps dozens of megalithic tombs in Spain, revealing burial mounds and a fortified Copper Age settlement.
During restorations at the Palace of Westminster in London, excavations have revealed a trove of historic objects, the oldest ...
In the municipality of Fonelas, northeast of Granada in Spain, time and erosion had erased almost every trace of its earliest ...
Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...
Turkey's Stone Mounds Project, including Gobeklitepe and Karahantepe, features the world's oldest structures for gathering ...
Archaeologists suspect the ancient society carried out two types of human sacrifices – one that involved mass burials of men ...
A pioneering study, published in Antiquity, has revealed the possible oldest long-distance communication system documented in ...