According to a Stars and Stripes report, the remains of 25 people and some 2,000 artifacts, including personal effects and ...

It had been previously thought that cat domestication began some 10,000 years ago, when wildcats lived alongside farmers in ...

Phys.org reports that a Kerma culture burial radiocarbon dated to between 1775 and 1609 B.C. has been discovered in Sudan’s Bayuda Desert, in what was once ancient Nubia, by a team of researchers ...

According to a statement released by Arizona State University, a second hominin lived in […] ...

A sculpture known as the Hell Mouth is one of several dozen fantastical creations dating to the sixteenth century that line the paths of a park called the Sacro Bosco, or Sacred Wood, near the central ...

Huge carved obelisks and stelas in northern Ethiopia were erected by the kings of the Aksum Empire, who ruled the Horn of Africa and Red Sea region for much of the first millennium A.D. The toppled ...

The Associated Press reports that an intact Roman sarcophagus has been discovered in the Óbuda district of Budapest, in what ...

Twenty-two pieces of silver bullion, including both raw ingots and flattened Viking arm rings, were discovered in the Galloway Hoard. Arm rings such as these, which are usually found in Ireland and ...

Live Science reports that the fragments of a lone human skull were discovered in the collapsed walls of a 2,000-year-old Celtic fort at the Cantabri site of La Loma in northern Spain. The flaking, ...

An aerial view of Tel Shikmona, on the rocky Mediterranean coast of northern Israel. Archaeologists have uncovered traces of nearly three millennia of habitation at the site, including evidence for a ...

Scallop shells were found in situ around the Viking woman's mouth. TRØNDELAG COUNTY, NORWAY—The grave of a Viking Age woman has been unearthed on private land in central Norway ...

According to a statement released by the French National Center for Scientific Research, an international team of scientists led by Quentin Cosnefroy and Isabelle Crevecoeur of the University of ...