A genetic study of 80 skulls found at a Stone Age city in China has revealed that the sacrificed people were mostly men, in ...

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

Archaeologists in Hungary have uncovered a 1,300-year-old warrior’s tomb containing one of only about 80 known Avar sabers, a ...

The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

Cornwall has several stone circles, and as many as 800 sit across the United Kingdom, remnants of prehistoric people who ...

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

The elongated skull was likely caused by a genetic condition, but it evidently didn’t get in the way of the individual’s ...

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...

Plant species mentioned in texts from the past 800 years hint the wooded grasslands of western India have been there since ...

A study says the Ain Samiya goblet, found in 1970, depicts a moment of cosmic creation, challenging previous scholarly interpretations. It's the oldest-known cup of its kind.

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

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...