Football, rugby and lacrosse all received their first agreed rulebooks in the 19th century, which can make team sports look ...

For centuries, readers knew the text mainly through scattered quotations in early Christian writers. Then, in the 1880s and ...

Before dawn on October 22, hundreds of visitors gathered at Abu Simbel in southern Egypt, with some sleeping outside ...

The pit houses of Matmata are one of the most distinctive forms of home building in North Africa, dug down into the earth ...

The Denisovan story began in 2010, when genetic material from a finger bone found in Siberia’s Denisova Cave revealed an ...

The Voynich manuscript may be difficult to read for a surprisingly physical reason: its pages could have been assembled in ...

According to Türkiye's Ministry of Culture and Tourism, in a statement carried by the state news agency Anadolu Agency (AA), the flute came from a settlement fill of the Archaic period, which the ...

A new study has found that the people who made China’s Terracotta Army may have included women and children, not only adult ...

A naturally mummified dog found at Castillo de Huarmey has provided the earliest radiocarbon date yet recovered from the Peruvian site - and fresh evidence that Peruvian hairless dogs were already ...

A new study in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association argues that a skeleton found inside a Roman sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey may belong to Ælfwig, an abbot who died around 1020.

Archaeologists have recovered Neanderthal DNA from six hand-bone fragments found in Abauntz Cave, Navarre, in what ...