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 ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - An Asotin man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one misdemeanor count of disturbing an archaeological resource ...

A new study maps dozens of megalithic tombs in Spain, revealing burial mounds and a fortified Copper Age settlement.

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

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

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 with the World Monuments Fund uncovered over 100 previously unknown archaeological structures in Peru’s Rio ...

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 ...

Hunter-gatherers thrived in Florida for more than eight millennia before they began to make pottery around 2600 b.c., during the Late Archaic period. This invention seems to have dramatically changed ...

Discover the 3,800-year-old desert city of Peñico in Peru, revealing how the heirs of Caral faced crises without resorting to war.