Where the hot and sweltering tropical valleys and bleached coastlines of Papua New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago meet, archaeologists and geneticists have excavated, and resurrected, ancient hum ...

According to the researchers, early humans, who primarily consumed large game, required fire not for cooking, but to smoke and dry meat so that it would not rot, thereby preserving it for extended ...

In a rare and chilling discovery, archaeologists have uncovered powerful new evidence of execution and public punishment from early medieval England.

A vibrant and intricately detailed mosaic dating back over 1,600 years has been revealed to the public for the first time in Israel's western Negev.

In a discovery rewriting the timeline of symbolic behavior in early humans, archaeologists in Spain have identified what is now considered the oldest known human fingerprint—left in ochre pigment by a ...

In a remarkable find that deepens our understanding of one of the world’s oldest civilizations, archaeologists working at the Era de Pando archaeological site in Peru’s Supe Valley have uncovered a 5, ...

On the hot days of late May 1588, the ports of Lisbon were heavy with the smell of pitch, pine, and the fervent hopes of a ...

High in the cloud forests of the northeastern Peruvian Andes, where vegetation and altitude combine to conceal secrets, archaeologists have uncovered a breathtaking rediscovery: over 100 previously un ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on ...

A new study published by archaeologists at Bournemouth University has revealed that the bodies recovered from a ‘war-cemetery ...

On the 27th of May, 1703, in the midst of the mist-shrouded marshes of the delta of the Neva River, Tsar Peter the Great made ...

In the dark rock shelter of Riparo Tagliente in Italy's Lessini Mountains, the fragmentary skeleton of a young man, interred ...