A new study of 2,316 burials from China’s Central Plain suggests that ancient inequality became durable thousands of years ...

Beringia stretched between the Lena River in Russia and the Mackenzie River in Canada during the Ice Age. (National Park ...

The ordeal of rice is a divine method of proof that was employed in ancient India. This ordeal involves suspects chewing on rice grains and then spitting them out. The condition of the grains is then ...

The ventral (left) and dorsal (right) views of the Shanidar A scapula with the hole through it. Ventral is the front of the ...

Marcus Porcius Cato, known as Cato the Younger, became Rome’s great symbol of this problem. He was a senator in the last ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an early medieval palace complex on a wooded hilltop near Dijon, revealing how wealthy communities in Burgundy maintained Roman-style comforts long after the western ...

An announcement by Turkey Today has brought a remarkable find into view: archaeologists have recovered Early Bronze Age ...

A grooved stone pulled from the seabed off western Norway may be the oldest known anchor in the country, and possibly ...

The ancient settlement of Tetelihtic in Puebla’s Sierra Norte was designed to watch the Sun, archaeologists now say, confirming the existence of a solar observatory more than 2,500 years old. The ...

That kingdom was Numidia, and for roughly two centuries it occupied what's now Algeria, playing Rome and Carthage off each ...

Around 400 BC, the fortified villages of northern Iberia emptied out, and they emptied fast. A new study of 109 ...

A metal detectorist who recovered one of Scotland's most important Bronze Age treasures has struck again, lifting a second ...