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

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

Archaeologists in Greece have uncovered the grave of an ousted noblewoman whom they are calling "The Lady with the Inverted Diadem." The seventh-century-B.C. burial is notable for the elaborate bronze ...

Today the deserts of the Arabian peninsula are inhospitable - but 100,000 years ago the area was full of animals and ancient ...

A 5,500-year-old wildcat discovered in County Clare reveals surprising insights into Ireland’s prehistoric wildlife and ...

Square-shaped skull discovered at Balcón de Montezuma archaeological site in Tamaulipas, Mexico, showing unique cranial modification technique. ( Technical Archive of the Physical Anthropology Section ...

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 - ...

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 ...

A newly identified fossil snake reveals clues about early advanced snake evolution. Its mixed traits highlight an ancient branch of the caenophidian family tree. More than forty years after it was ...

The Lamniformes includes some of the most familiar species of sharks, such as the great white and mako sharks as well as less ...

British archaeologists have made a discovery they believe points to an unusual ancient monument that once stood in Northwest ...

A monumental archaeological discovery in northern China is reshaping what we know about early human settlement and society.