The intricate cave system perched deep in an isolated stretch of Spanish mountains contained the remains of an ancient and ...

The figurines were discovered in a largely unexcavated site in El Salvador. Some 2,400 years ago, they were controlled by ...

Secrets of China's ancient history have been uncovered through a new 2,000-year-old discovery made by archaeologists in the ...

Investigating a burial site at the ancient village of Tombos, archaeologists have re-written their own rule book when it ...

The settlement roughly dates back to the transition from the Neolithic period to the Bronze Age. Researchers used noninvasive ...

For all its importance in Roman history, however, some parts of Ostia Antica have been long overlooked by modern archaeology—unlike, say, the ancient city of Pompeii, 130 miles south down the ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Tombos, Sudan, has revolutionized our understanding of pyramid burials in Ancient Egypt. Led by ...

Professor Lee Berger, the project's leader and Director of the Centre for Exploration of the Deep Human Journey at Wits ...

Rome and Ostia to this day are dotted with remnants of ancient Jewish history: a menorah on the bas-relief of the ...

You've probably heard of Pompeii. That long-lost, ancient city, destroyed by one of the most devastating volcanic eruptions ...

Neanderthals and modern humans overlapped and shared ideas for about 50,000 years in what is now Israel, a new study finds. .