Bones were exhumed and passed around to members of the community, who used the remains of their ancestors in a surprising ...

The 'rubbish' left behind at a deserted medieval village in an isolated area of Yorkshire could hold clues about how societies achieve long-term 'green' prosperity, according to new research. The ...

Tiberius may have been the leader of the Romans, but the sandstone block showed him dressed as a pharaoh.

Archaeologists to reveal secrets of Welsh castle’s hidden cave that was once home to a hippo - The cave is rapidly emerging ...

Upon the open grasslands of what is now Kazakhstan, there once stood a Bronze Age settlement that may have served as a center of exchange and power around 1600 BC. The settlement — called Semiyarka ...

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Explore 25 advanced ancient technologies that modern science still cannot fully explain. From pyramids to precision stonework ...

A recent archaeological discovery suggests a major cultural milestone: the onset of naturalistic depictions of people with animals around 12,000 years ago, almost three thousand years earlier than ...

In an archaeological achievement, researchers from Kumamoto University have successfully reconstructed the structure of prehistoric fishing nets from the Jomon period (ca. 14,000–900 BCE) by analyzing ...

Scientists decoded DNA from millennia-old lentils preserved in volcanic rock silos on Gran Canaria. The findings show that today’s Canary Island lentils largely descend from varieties brought from ...

New research has revealed that the Old Irish Goat shares a 3,000-year genetic link with goats living in Ireland during the Late Bronze Age. The findings suggest that the rare indigenous breed ...