Homo erectus is thought to have migrated out of Africa some 1.8 million years ago. Did other species migrate out of Africa as well at this time? The Dmanisi skulls differ from Homo erectus, do not all ...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Oxford University analyzed sediments from third-century a.d. […] ...

Elderly and ailing, a potter named Georges-André Colas penned a six-page letter to the Regional Archaeological Service of Burgundy in October 2008. “Dear Sir or Madam, although I am aware of the ...

Facial tattoos have been found on the mummified remains of children who lived in Nubia some 1,400 years ago, when ...

ArtNet News reports that excavators working in the ancient Roman town of Oplontis, three miles west of Pompeii, have ...

ZME Science reports that some 270,000 beads made of scallop and cockle shells, stones, and animal bones have been found in a Copper Age grave at the Montelirio Tholos site in southwestern Spain by a ...

New DNA analysis of the remains of a Roman-era individual known as Beachy Head Woman indicates that she came from ...

While reexcavating a Viking burial mound in southwestern Norway, archaeologists from the University of Bergen came across a surprise: a message left more than a century ago by Anders Lorange, one of ...

A 15th-century manuscript shows trees bearing (clockwise from top left): sweet apples, jujubes, lemons, cherries, dates, and sour apples. By 7,000 years ago, people in New Guinea were cultivating ...

In May 1562, Diego de Landa, the highest-ranking Catholic authority in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, received word that a large number of idols, along with human bones and deer meat, had been discovered ...

How archaeologists are rediscovering the ancient world's most marvelous monuments The canonical Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were renowned for their size or splendor and—in all cases—the ...