A recently studied 500-year-old Inca khipu (Quipu) has overturned assumptions about who created these intricate thread-based documents. The study, published...
A minor genetic difference in one of the enzymes may have helped separate modern humans from Neanderthals and Denisovans, our...
Archaeologists excavating in southwestern Kenya have uncovered strong evidence that early hominins were transporting stones over long distances about 2.6...
More than 3,000 years ago, in the port city of Ugarit on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, the scribes...
For the first time since the late 19th century, artifacts believed to originate from the Daisen Kofun burial mound, traditionally...
Archaeologists have completed a three-year excavation at the Celtic oppidum of Manching in Bavaria and uncovered more than 40,000 artifacts...
A decade after its discovery in the Historic Center of Mexico City, the Huei Tzompantli of Tenochtitlan—an immense structure built...
Three meters underwater in the Gulf of Naples, archaeologists found a remarkably preserved Roman bathhouse in the submerged ruins of...
Researchers in northeastern Ethiopia have made a thrilling discovery of fossilized teeth that may belong to a new branch of...
Archaeologists have unearthed surprising genetic evidence that two individuals buried at opposite ends of the south coast of England in...
