Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History have turned to an unexpected source of information—ostrich eggshell beads—to shed light on ancient social networks
Centuries-old faeces indicate previous human occupation of the North Atlantic islands
Archaeologists from the University of Seville have discovered a series of submerged ruins that could correspond with the Phoenician-Punic temple of Melqart and Hercules Gaditanus
The excavations and analysis of the discovery are published this week in Nature Scientific Reports and offers insight into the early Mesolithic period, from which few recorded burials are known
Scientists have a new understanding of the mysterious Antikythera mechanism that challenges assumptions about ancient technology
In our self-obsessed age, the anonymous, mysterious cave art of our ancient ancestors is exhilarating
Researchers from Washington State University have suggested that the giant stone monoliths of southern Ethiopia are 1,000 years older than previously thought
Researchers at the University of Zurich have investigated a unique leather scale armor found in the tomb of a horse rider in Northwest China
The first example of a Roman crucifixion in the UK has been unearthed in a small Cambridgeshire village, archaeologists said
The 3.66-million-year-old tracks from East Africa are unique, comparisons show
Archeologists in Peru working on a site in the outskirts of the capital Lima have unearthed a mummy believed to be between 800 and 1,200 years old—and, surprisingly, bound with rope
