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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

State archaeologists and geologists are working together to solve a more than 10,000-year-old mystery at the Piney Grove archaeological site near Reisterstown, building on discoveries first made in ...

Archaeologists studied hundreds of unfinished stone heads in a quarry on Easter Island to better understand how they were constructed and the society that made them.

A few years later, in 2024, researchers put forward a study about 10,000-year-old gobs of “gum” (also pieces of resin made of ...

Archaeologists in Budapest have unearthed a well-preserved Roman sarcophagus, revealing insights into the life of a young ...

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Archaeologists uncovered 150,000-year-old tools in Morocco’s Bizmoune Cave, revealing how early humans hunted and lived.