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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Human eyes are as individual as fingerprints. Like those of a living person, the eyes of this ceramic figurine discovered recently at the site of Xanab Chak in the Puuc region of Mexico’s Yucatán ...

Archaeologists digging near the village of Offord Cluny recently unearthed the isolated burial of a man who, according to radiocarbon dating of his remains, lived between a.d. 126 and 228, during the ...

SAN MARCOS, TEXAS—The oldest rock art discovered in limestone shelters in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of southwestern Texas and northern Mexico have been radiocarbon dated to some 6,000 years ago, ...

The Anadolu Agency reports that a stadium has been uncovered in western Turkey’s ancient site of Blaundos, a naturally fortified hilltop city founded as a garrison for Macedonian soldiers during ...

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