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Ultimately, these 573 fortresses redefine what we know about northern China’s prehistory. Long before the first emperors ...

There were 22 gold objects, in addition to other impressive grave goods, buried with the deceased, indicating they were ...

An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds. In the grave, ...

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

The burial site was 4,500 years old, but archaeology society members saw enough evidence to believe it was already in use nearly 8,000 years earlier.

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...

Archaeologists suspect the ancient society carried out two types of human sacrifices – one that involved mass burials of men ...

In early November 1927, the front pages of newspapers all over France featured photographs not of the usual politicians, aviators or sporting events, but of a group of archaeologists engaged in ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Daniel J. Sherman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (THE CONVERSATION) In ...