An articulated Neanderthal skeleton that was discovered during an excavation at the famous Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan.

It was found outside the northeast corner of the Alamo Church, in an adjacent excavation unit where another intact cannonball ...

Archaeologists find two gold rings dating back 2,000 years during dig in Thailand - Officials in Thailand have discovered two ...

It’s the kind of discovery that sounds more Indiana Jones than archaeology lab. Researchers digging in Israel say they may ...

Narrow, worn stairs beneath the 11th-century Pembroke Castle in Wales lead into a shadowy cavern where early humans once ...

The discovery at an excavation site just outside of Aarhus highlights how well-organized textile production would have ...

A large asteroid does not need to hit Earth to expose a hard truth: the most dangerous space rocks may be the ones spotted ...

Archaeologists working at the ancient site of Tripolis near Denizli, Turkey, have exposed a Roman-era villa containing 33 ...

A team of archaeologists found in France a treasure with tens of thousands of Roman coins that had remained hidden for 1,800 ...

For centuries, pilgrims, priests, and pharaohs brought gifts to Karnak, the vast temple complex that stood at the religious heart of ancient Egypt. Sacred vessels and statues had accumulated within ...

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Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey ...