Ancient artefacts unearthed and collected during the construction of a huge Leeds transport project have been preserved at a Leeds museum.

Iron Age cargoes from Dor reveal how ancient Mediterranean trade evolved alongside shifting empires and political power. New ...

Archaeologists have uncovered ancient canoes, including one that’s 5,200 years old, making it even older than Egypt’s Great ...

An amazing find in a Wisconsin lake has rewritten the timeline of advanced cultures in North America by centuries.

Wisconsin Historical Society researchers have uncovered 16 ancient canoes in Lake Mendota, some of which are thousands of ...

Sleep is one of life’s most universal behaviors. Despite its ubiquity, it’s also one of the most mysterious. Humans spend ...

Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was walking through the Dadès Valley in the Central High Atlas Mountains of Morocco when she saw something ...

The Konya Basin, situated in Central Anatolia, Turkey, is exhibiting signs of rapid ground subsidence, despite being part of ...

The anthropomorphic statues, dating back to the Megalithic period (circa 1,000–300 BCE), were discovered by Sangu Venkat ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of years before agriculture emerged. According to the study’s co-authors, the ...

Two renowned prehistoric individuals were likely infected with a human papillomavirus that has been linked to several cancers ...

Roman object called the Medusa of cameo, found in Hallstatt, is an 1,800-year-old gem that reveals trade networks in the ...