It is deemed 'the most significant artifact ever,' but a box said to contain the bones of Jesus' brother has a controversial ...

The incredible number of shiny shell beads found in the Montelirio tomb reveals the power of an ancient female dynasty.

Across the Alps, ice that has locked away human stories for millennia is vanishing, and with it a new, unsettling landscape ...

The "fancy grave goods" confirmed what they had already suspected thanks to the horse - it was a high status burial. These ...

Researchers identified chemical traces of poison on 60,000-year-old arrowheads, meaning the artifacts bear the oldest known evidence of arrow poison.

Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from ...

It always amazes me how much history is still being uncovered today, despite the time that has been dedicated to looking and ...

Yinxu - known as the last capital of the Shang - is one of China’s most important archaeological sites, famous for oracle bone inscriptions and monumental burials. The new pits add another layer: not ...

A newly studied megalithic tomb in Oman reveals centuries-long Neolithic burial practices, regional mobility, and early ...

The people at the center of this discovery are known as the Sambaqui. For nearly 7,000 years, these groups lived along the ...

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in an unusual source: the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.