According to a statement released by Leiden University, a groundbreaking ancient DNA study has provided new information about a pivotal transitional period in prehistoric Europe. The research ...

This is particularly the case in Vietnam, where tooth blackening has been well documented in modern times, but archaeologists have long wondered about when the practice first began. According to a ...

A Paleolithic teenaged boy whose remains were discovered in northwest Italy's Ardene Candide cave in 1942 immediately earned the nickname Il Principe, or “the Prince,” because of the richness of the ...

According to a statement released by the University of Sydney, seabird guano may have been a major factor in the rise of Peru’s precolonial Chincha Kingdom, a powerful coastal polity that reached an ...

Around 4,600 years ago, a Neolithic Chinese civilization known as the Shijiahe culture flourished in the Middle Yangtze ...

According to a report in Haaretz, archaeologists have discovered two small pieces of hide connected by a cord in Cougar ...

Ancient written sources record that when Alexander the Great returned to Mesopotamia from the Indus Valley around 324 b.c., he founded a strategic new port in the region, known as Alexandria on the ...

These figures stood in stark contrast to those the visitors had seen in the exquisite painting of a Dionysian initiation at a recent party in an opulent seaside villa. Holding a wine glass in one hand ...

According to an RTÉ report, a burial pit containing the remains of at least 10 people, likely young men buried after a battle or a mass execution, was uncovered in eastern England by a team from ...

A survey of rock art in Wadi Khamila conducted by Mustafa Nour El-Din of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and Ludwig Morenz of the University of Bonn revealed a 5,000-year-old ...

A beautifully crafted sword was among the many extraordinary burial objects—including knives, spears, brooches, […] ...

GARNEILL, MONTANA—For around 700 years, Native people of the American Great Plains hunted bison at […] ...