Learn how an altar has revealed the rivalry between the ancient cities of Tikal and Teotihuacan.

Ancient practices hold important lessons for farmers facing drying lands. But they were often more complex than modern ...

This month’s cover shows Aberlemno II, a 2.28m-tall Pictish cross slab in Angus. Thought to date to the 8th century, its ...

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

While sifting through the ruins of an ancient building in Oman, archaeologists unearthed a pair of green-blue discs. The ...

Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala, a global team of researchers including scholars from Brown University have unearthed a buried ...

Minoan Greece had fast food 3,600 years ago, with food stalls serving dishes like souvlaki, a beloved Greek staple still popular today.

Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno ... functioning similarly to modern-day headstones. The statues have since been moved to Palestra Grande at the excavation site for restoration.

A grisly Bible story about an ancestor of Jesus may be true, jaw-dropping new evidence from a site dubbed 'Armageddon' ...

The woman was in her mid-30s when she was buried in a royal cemetery on the Greek mainland at Mycenae and was discovered in ...

Archaeologists discovered a Roman necropolis near Naples at the location of the ancient settlement of Liternum. An inscription in the marble of a tomb indicated that it was the final resting place of ...

DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green ...