A team of prehistoric archaeologists from Tel Aviv University has proposed a new hypothesis to explain a long-standing mystery: Why did ancient humans bring very young children deep into underground c ...

Outperforming even the most voracious and ruthless human invaders, the Black Death decimated English towns of all sizes in ...

The Denisovans are the most enigmatic and mysterious of human ancestors, and also one of the most fascinating.

Many different causes likely contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire, in the various stages of that phenomenon.

A team of Polish archaeologists has been credited with one of the most extraordinary finds in recent memory in Peru.

In an incredible stroke of luck (or is it really precocious skill?), a three-year-old amateur archaeologist has made history ...

French archaeological mission, composed of experts from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, France’s National Center for ...

Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala, a global team of ...

A groundbreaking, high-resolution 3D reconstruction of the Titanic wreck has unveiled new clues about the ship’s ill-fated descent into the icy waters of the North Atlantic.

A vivid digital reconstruction has brought to life the face of a Mycenaean woman who lived over 3,500 years ago, offering an ...

Neil Carlin, Catherine J. Frieman and Jessica Smyth/The ConversationIn County Meath in eastern Ireland sits the world heritage site of Brú na Bóinne.

While the Middle Paleolithic period is viewed as a dynamic time in European and African history, it is commonly considered a static period in East Asia.