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

Archaeology is having a moment, thanks to technology like LiDAR, satellite mapping and artificial intelligence.

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The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's ...

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 ...

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

It was in 2013, in South Africa's Rising Star cave system, that archaeologists first discovered the remains of H. naledi.

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat ... Kristina Killgrove is a staff writer at Live Science with a focus on archaeology and paleoanthropology news. Her articles have also appeared in ...

The settlement roughly dates back to the transition from the Neolithic period to the Bronze Age. Researchers used noninvasive methods to image the sites, launching drones equipped with LiDAR to ...

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 ...

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 ...