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 ...
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 ...
Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...
Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and ...
The burial site was 4,500 years old, but archaeology society members saw enough evidence to believe it was already in use ...
Archaeologists discovered 6,000-year-old flint tools beneath the Palace of Westminster that predate Stonehenge, along with medieval artifacts and Roman remains.
Thousands of shipwrecks lie in the 4,080 square miles of the Bay and its feeder waters. The archaeologists, divers, and other ...
Archaeologist Shadia Abdrabo is working to create an online database of Sudan's archaeological sites and museum collections ...
A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...
Students from HF Robotics spent this season uncovering a piece of Flossmoor history that many residents never knew existed.