A tiny bird figurine discovered in a refuse heap in the Henan province of China is changing what historians thought they knew ...

Residues on arrow tips found in South Africa hint at how far back in history humans have been using poison for survival.

The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.

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The oldest previously known funeral pyre in the world was discovered in Alaska and dates to approximately 11,500 years ago, but that cremation involved a young child rather than an adult. Some burned ...

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and ...

These thirty remarkable discoveries from 2024-2025 represent only a fraction of the archaeological treasures emerging from soil, sand, and sea around the world. Each find adds another piece to the ...

An unassuming grave on the western shore of the Black Sea has pushed the story of gold back to a far earlier chapter than ...

The discovery of a 5th millennium BC grave on the western shore of the Black Sea has pushed the story of gold back to a far ...

X-ray image of the Hastrup hoard (all objects are bronze artefacts). Credit: Louise Felding / CC BY 4.0 A remarkable discovery in central Jutland has uncovered over 200 ancient bronze fragments, ...

As a kid, I loved rummaging around my uncle’s makeshift museum. Wilfred Sylvester was an enthusiastic amateur historian and collector of remarkable artifacts, and he had transformed two rooms of my ...