The tumulus (or burial mound) now stands about 26 feet (8 meters) above a natural hillock and more than 100 ft (30 m) above ...

Wild animal relics discovered at the Yinxu Ruins in Anyang, Central China's Henan Province Photo: Sina Weibo . Including skeletal remains of animals such as tigers, a significant ...

Famed archaeologist Robert Grenier, who led the discovery of the 16th-century Basque whaling ship the San Juan in Labrador, ...

Sixteen 5,200-year-old canoes have been discovered under Lake Mendota in the U.S., making most of them older than the ...

An intact 5,000-year-old tomb has been discovered in Teba, Spain, containing ivory, amber, shells, and trade networks.

An ancient war trumpet known as a carnyx was discovered in southeastern England — and it may have links to the Celtic Queen ...

The first Homo sapiens to arrive in the Americas may have originated in a region covering today’s Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the ...

The mummified remains of a man buried close to a turquoise mine in Chile's Atacama Desert suggest he was a miner who died in ...

One small artifact opened up a world of discovery of a Neolithic civilization with a remarkably advanced social structure.

Peculiar 60,000-year-old Stone Age arrowheads unearthed in South Africa could be the earliest known use of poison-laced ...

Traces of a toxic chemical found on 60,000-year-old arrowheads hint at advanced planning by Palaeolithic hunters.

Residues on arrow tips found in South Africa hint at how far back in history humans have been using poison for survival.