A rare inscription at Hadrian’s Villa records a Roman lightning ritual linked to Summanus, god of night lightning.

Finland’s largest Viking Age silver hoard, weighing 4.5 kilograms, has been found near Sysmä with thousands of silver coins and jewelry.

Ice age hunter-gatherers in Indonesia sucked betel nuts for tooth pain, providing evidence of drug use at least 25,000 years ...

A Spanish-Egyptian team uncovered a late Fifth Dynasty tomb with colorful reliefs and two funerary chapels at Saqqara in ...

New research shows bear baiting became established in England by the 12th century, centuries earlier than its Elizabethan ...

Intense wildfires in the ancient southern Levant might have helped Neolithic people develop pottery, according to a new study ...

New evidence dates millet consumption in Bronze Age Poland to 1590 BCE, showing how people gradually adopted the resilient crop.

Excavations at Prado Vargas Cave in Spain uncover 1,500+ animal remains and stone tools from a 46,000-year-old Neanderthal ...

New dating of 1,000 human bones from Spanish caves shows Neolithic cannibalism occurred at different times and for different ...

A new study finds the hobbit Homo floresiensis had a human-like pelvis, suggesting slower upright walking and leaving its ...

New research shows ancient Mediterranean ports had much more ship capacity beyond their visible quays, moles and harbor ...

A 5,000-year-old burial mound near Wrocław contains a male skeleton, 42-tooth necklace and battle axe linked to Corded Ware ...