Credit: State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony Anhalt, Ulf Petzschmann. Archaeologists in Saxony-Anhalt uncovered a narrow underground passage...
Researchers have identified a fatal bear mauling as the cause of death for a Gravettian teenager buried about 28,000 years...
A newly recorded rock carving in the southwest Sinai Desert provides rare visual evidence of early Egyptian expansion into the...
An international research team has confirmed the earliest known genetic diagnosis in an anatomically modern human, identifying a rare skeletal...
Chemical analysis of residue inside a small Roman glass vial has produced the first direct physical evidence that human feces...
A new study examines how divine sanctuaries fit into medical practice in ancient Mesopotamia. Troels Arbøll analyzed cuneiform prescriptions from...
About 5,500 to 6,000 years ago, hunter-fisher-gatherers lived across what is now Finland. These communities, known to archaeologists as the...
Archaeologists have documented a well-preserved Bronze Age hilltop settlement at Harden Quarry in the Cheviot Hills of northern England. The...
Researchers working in central China have identified stone tools shaped for attachment to handles between 160,000 and 72,000 years ago....
A doctoral dissertation at the University of Gothenburg has examined the social role of Nordic Bronze Age rock art in...
