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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

For decades, the sticky black tar that Neanderthals cooked out of birch bark has been filed away in the archaeological literature as prehistoric glue. A new round of laboratory experiments suggests ...

Halloween has a ready-made origin story. Long before children dressed as vampires and superheroes, the Celts supposedly gathered around fires on a night called Samhain. It was then, when the boundary ...

A young horseman buried more than 2,000 years ago in southern Russia went to his grave with weapons, his horse and a gold ...

On the second night, the seer Ezra dreams of an eagle rising from the sea. It has twelve feathered wings and three heads. It ...

Most of the wood is firewood, including branches and trunks up to 7.2 meters long. Two spears came from Level R: one is 2.45 ...