Burial of a 10-month-old Neanderthal with red deer jawbone leaning against the pelvis HAIFA, ISRAEL—A study conducted by Ella ...

Newsweek reports that Radosław Karasiewicz-Szczypiorski of the University of Warsaw and his colleagues have […] ...

Live Science reports that a 4,400-year-old settlement site has been discovered in western Saudi Arabia by a team of ...

NBC News reports that forensic artist Oscar Nilsson has reconstructed the face of Zosia, a woman who was buried with the ...

An impressive selection of grave goods including roe deer antlers (top) that could have been worn as a headdress and boars’ teeth (middle) and tusks (above) with holes drilled in them enabling ...

According to a report in the Derry Journal, an excavation at the seventeenth-century city walls surrounding the city of Derry ...

New evidence shows that the remote North Atlantic archipelago was settled hundreds of years before the Vikings reached its shores Sheep graze in the Faroe Islands, an archipelago in the North ...

A spiral temple sits atop a 3,000-year-old burial mound known as Montegrande in northern Peru’s Amazon region.(Courtesy Quirino Olivera Nuñez) The Amazon jungle wasn’t supposed to have been ...

The Colossi of Memnon, a pair of statues each depicting the seated Amenhotep III (r. ca. 1390–1352 B.C.), once stood at the first pylon, or gateway, of the pharaoh’s enormous mortuary temple ...

Some 40 years ago, a Buddhist monk uncovered a mandible in Baishiya Karst Cave, more than 10,000 feet above sea level on the Tibetan Plateau. The specimen has now been dated to 160,000 years ago ...

Members of the public regularly get in touch with Charles Stanish, an expert on Andean cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. Two years ago, Stanish received a call from a man in ...

Surtshellir, a lava tube in western Iceland, is one of many with signs of human use, but presents a puzzle for archaeologists. Was it a hideout for bandits or the feared home of a mythical fire giant?