Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

Two University of Houston professors' discovery of a Mayan ruler's tomb was named one of the top 10 finds of 2025 by ...

A young woman buried in China’s Tarim Basin some 2,000 years ago went to the afterlife accompanied by the height of fashion. The woman, who was wrapped in a felt blanket and buried in a coffin ...

Colombia has recovered the first artefacts from the San José galleon, a 1708 shipwreck long dubbed the “holy grail of ...

Recently, Mutin and geochemist Antoine Zazzo of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris led a team that used new methods of radiocarbon dating to analyze tooth enamel from 23 Neolithic people ...

A monumental archaeological discovery in northern China is reshaping what we know about early human settlement and society. Near the city of Yulin in Shaanxi Province, researchers have uncovered an ...

Archeological excavations at Jerash continue to produce new finds more than a century after the ancient city’s rediscovery.

This week’s biggest science news took us on a journey through human prehistory, with the discovery that the mysterious, 3.4 million-year-old "Burtele foot" in Ethiopia may have belonged to an ...

A newly surveyed Bronze Age city shows unexpected urban planning and bronze production in the steppe. Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a large Bronze Age settlement on the Kazakh Steppe, a ...

“I feel so sad,” says one studio executive. They’re not alone: All of Hollywood is currently bracing to hear which of three media corporations will change the landscape of movies and television ...

Göbeklitepe. Credit: Teomancimit / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 Turkey announced a new wave of 12,000-year-old archaeological discoveries on Wednesday from Göbeklitepe, Sefertepe, Karahantepe, and ...

As Greece builds to accommodate a rise in tourism and other development projects, unearthed antiquities complicate progress. Archaeologists speculate that this recently found ancient Minoan ...