Findings suggest alphabetic writing may be some 500 years older than other discoveries

Japanese researchers deploy AI and drones to discover 303 new Nazca Lines in Peru's desert, nearly doubling the total count of known geoglyphs in just six months.

The two species began burying their dead at roughly the same time and place. Now some archaeologists think competition may have played a role in burials.

As we move through the Sixth Extinction, it can be beneficial to examine what caused massive die-offs in the past. Lystrosaurus specimens from South Africa have been found that may help clarify wha…

An analysis on the soil at an ancient site in the UK linked to King Arthur has found construction isn't likely to be medieval after all, having sat buried beneath the ground for thousands of years.

Scientists from the Leibniz Zentrum für Archäologie and Durham University have examined a collection of 406 engraved schist plaquettes found at the Magdalenian site of Gönnersdorf in Germany.

An ancient-DNA analysis of victims in Pompeii who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption reveals some unusual relations between the people who died together.

Early Homo sapiens and their Neanderthal cousins started burying their dead around the same time and roughly the same place, some 120,000 years ago.

A rare 3,500-year-old wooden spade has been uncovered at Dorset’s Arne Moors by Wessex Archaeology.

Vikings were well-traveled, as shown by 50 skeletons found in Denmark. Their graves contained goods from other lands, suggesting international trade.

Archaeologists unearthed a 6,000-year-old longhouse, revealing the presence of not one, but two distinct Neolithic cultures.

A surprise discovery in a remote Australian desert region has given us new clues into the evolution of complex animal life, dating back more than 500 million years. The numerous fossils of the animal now known as Quaestio simpsonorum also show clear left-right asymmetry, concrete evidence of when…

Take a look at how experts are restoring the Temple of Horus to its original colors from over 2,000 years ago atop tall scaffolds.

Expedition leader: “Everything we found shattered our expectations.”…

In an astonishing new finding, scholars discover that Stonehenge’s giant Altar Stone came from northeast Scotland.

The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ocean.

Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new species in the tyrannosaurid dinosaur genus Labocania, based on a partial skeleton found in Coahuila, Mexico.

This could finally explain their purpose.