Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 7,200-year-old skeleton from a female hunter-gatherer in Indonesia that has a "distinct human lineage" never found anywhere in the world, according...
From ancient catacombs, those underground passages in which the dead were buried or their remains and bones were preserved, to the modern subway, humans have always traveled underground for brief...
Archaeologists have discovered in the ancient ancient city of Teotihuacan near Mexico City in central Mexico, bouquets of plants that are 1800 to 2,000 years old. Quetzalcóatl, or 'Plumed Serpent'...
Researchers have discovered a 51,000-year-old deer bone carved with lines by Neanderthals in the Einhornhöhle (“Unicorn Cave”) in Germany, according to a study published in Nature Ecology &...
Archaeologists in Turkey believe mysterious 3,200 year-old stone carvings are an astronomical map of the cosmos and an ancient calendar.
The Yazılıkaya rock sanctuary in central Turkey, about...
El Castillo in Spain,In caves on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, ancient peoples marked the walls with red and mulberry hand stencils, and painted images of large native mammals...
Australian scientists have compared an ancient Greek technique of memorizing data to an even older technique from Aboriginal culture, using students in a rural medical school.The study found...
A strange rock in the shape of a boat was discovered in an Icelandic cave, the Vikings likely used it to stave off the end of the world 1,100 years ago, according to the researchers.The rock was...
Archaeologists have found the oldest home in hominin history. Unsurprisingly, it is a cave: Wonderwerk Cave in the Kalahari Desert. Astonishingly, it has been occupied more or less continuously...
Metal excavators in Wales have discovered nine priceless artifacts from the Middle Ages onwards, including a gold ring adorned with a spooky-looking skull made of white enamel.After analyzing the...
Archaeologists in France have uncovered a stone with 4,000-year-old etchings they believe may be the oldest three-dimensional map in Europe.The board, called Saint-Bélec Slab, contains elements,...
On the coast of Yorkshire, a team of archaeologists discovered the oldest salt-making complex in Western Europe, this discovery is expected to revolutionize the understanding of Britain's prehistoric...
The mummy of Queen Tiye "1398 BC"The image of the Egyptian Queen Tiye aroused the admiration of millions, especially when it was spread on social medias, and the question that baffled many became how...
Archaeologists in northern Peru have identified a 3,200-year-old mural painted on the side of an ancient adobe temple that is thought to depict a zoomorphic, knife-wielding spider god associated with...
According to a new study, some of the world's first cities were completely destroyed 4,000 years ago after being exposed to a powerful combination of climate change and unbridled...
The pyramids of Giza astonished researchers for many centuries with their large size, symmetry, and even their mysterious spaces and frightening rooms, and the confusing puzzle revolved around the...
Mayan archaeologists witnessed a "watershed" moment when they discovered the remains of an ancient royal palace, proving the existence of a "huge, previously unknown community".Famous for their...
Dutch archaeologists suggest that Europeans in the Bronze Age may have used rings and blades as an early form of coinage, based on an examination of the holdings of 113 different piles of...
Most of us are fascinated by our ancestry, a trait that appears to be characteristic of our species, which always wonders about its ancestors and the origins of its human race.Scientists go away from...
A new study found that the pharaoh, who ruled southern Egypt 3576 years ago, was captured in a battle against a foreign dynasty occupying the north and was executed ceremonially.Experts from Egypt...
