A new genetic study is providing the most detailed picture to date of the people who built Shimao, a vast...

Across the plains of what is now Ukraine, long before agriculture had revolutionized human life, groups of hunter-gatherers encountered winters...

According to a recent publication, archaeologists working at the medieval fortress of Zorita de los Canes in central Spain unearthed...

For generations, the limestone rock shelters of southwest Texas and northern Mexico have hidden some of the most spectacular ancient...

The Aska head (left; photograph by O. Myrin, Swedish Historical Museums, CC BY 4.0) and the Rällinge figurine (right; photograph...

For the first time, researchers have presented the most detailed digital reconstruction of Rano Raraku, the main quarry on Easter...

Archaeologists working in the historic center of Třebíč are bringing a long-running investigation to its final phase, concluding several years...

Scientists have solved a mystery concerning an unusual 3.4 million-year-old foot fossil from Ethiopia: it indeed comes from Australopithecus deyiremeda,...

A new genetic study is reshaping what researchers know about one of southern China’s most distinctive mortuary traditions—the Hanging Coffin...

Archaeologists have concluded the latest field season at Kissonerga-Skalia, a site north of Paphos that preserves one of the most...