Discovered in 2010 and excavated since 2013, the tomb dates back to the ancient kingdom of Phrygia (1200 to 675 BCE), but is ...

According to a statement released by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, people living some 5,000 years ago in the ...

New evidence from Brazil reveals organized whale hunting began thousands of years earlier than previously believed, ...

Archaeologists working ahead of the Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk have uncovered a rare Anglo-Saxon “princely” ...

Archaeologists often focus on what skeletal remains can tell about how and when ancient peoples died. But an individual’s ...

Microscopic feathers provide clearest evidence yet of ceremonial clothing used in shamanic burial rituals in prehistoric ...

Swedish archaeologists have uncovered a 5,000-year-old dog burial in what used to be a Stone Age fishing lake.

The cemetery found in Suffolk consists of at least 11 Anglo-Saxon burial mounds (barrows) dating to the 6th–7th centuries AD. While acidic sandy soils have dissolved the bones, the excavators have ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

Historians and archaeologists long considered that the origins of organised whaling lay in the Arctic region of the Earth. A ...

A rare 5th-century BC bone stylus unearthed in Sicily features an erotic carving of the Greek god Dionysus—his bearded face ...

Archaeologists working at Gela in southern Sicily have recovered a remarkably delicate, 5th-century BC bone stylus that blends the everyday with the provocative: a carved head - likely Dionysus - and, ...