In a far-off corner of Brazil's Upper Amazon, seven massive funerary urns have been excavated from under the roots of a fallen tree — and with them, a whole chapter in the history of the Indigenous is ...

In the floodplain of Egypt's eastern Nile Delta, sun-baked and desolate, archaeologists have uncovered a city once built under the watchful eye of the cobra goddess, Wadjet.

Strong maternal lines recovered from ancient DNA samples at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, along with archaeological evidence of female-centered practice, points to a socio-cultural practice of mat ...

In the chilly darkness of Obłazowa Cave, hidden away in southern Poland's limestone cliffs, a remarkable relic slumbered beneath the grime for tens of thousands of millennia.

An ancient society near the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in modern-day Bolivia was once one of the continent's most powerful civilizations.

By Peter Edwell for The ConversationStanding in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo voices from 1,800 years ago.

In a groundbreaking discovery that reshapes our understanding of Mediterranean prehistory, archaeologists uncovered the earliest and largest known agricultural complex in Africa outside the Nile Valle ...

A rare and remarkable discovery at the sprawling Copper Age megasite of Valencina in southwestern Spain is reshaping our understanding of prehistoric Iberian society and its relationship with the sea.

New research has cast doubts over suggestions an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland more than 5,000 years ago.Researchers examined the evidence from burials of individual ...

For over a decade, the Denisovans were anthropology's most mysterious cousins — a ghost line whose existence was known almost solely from ancient DNA, a child's pinky bone, and a rumor of genes that s ...

An astonishing medieval sword, unearthed from a riverbed in the Netherlands, is now capturing the imagination of archaeologists and museum goers alike.

Travel back 20,000 years into the last Ice Age, to a time when the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains were treeless and the ridgelines and mountain peaks laden in snow and ice.At an elevation of 1,07 ...