Scientists have finally solved the mystery of Easter Island as they pinpoint who built the iconic stone heads over 900 years ...

Archaeologists excavating in southwestern France have uncovered one of the most remarkable Roman burial discoveries in recent decades - a richly furnished funeral pyre containing gold treasures, ...

Freshly unearthed jaw bones and teeth that were found close to a previously discovered foot suggest human relatives tried ...

Ancient genetic data from central Argentina reveal a previously unknown human population that endured there for millennia.

Newly identified bones tie the mysterious Burtele foot to a new Australopithecus species that lived alongside Lucy more than ...

The circular arrangement of pits forms a boundary over two kilometers wide, enclosing more than three square kilometers around the Durrington Walls henge and Woodhenge monuments. Each pit measures up ...

Mythology, folklore and even the Bible tell us that giants once roamed the Earth. And, it turns out, there’s evidence to back ...

As such, researchers at Cambridge University and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been studying tiny ancient fossils ...

In a remote floodplain of Brazil’s Amazonas state, a massive tree fell—and with it, a long-buried layer of Indigenous history ...

The island of Flores has guarded one of science’s greatest mysteries: could it be that the Flores man did not actually die out completely?