Southwest Sinai held prized resources, especially copper and turquoise, that drew Egyptian expeditions from very early periods. In this interpretation, the violence isn’t random: it is propaganda, ...

Earth is covered with technofossils, or man-made materials, that will last for centuries and maybe even longer.

Zahi Hawass recounts his rise in the new documentary The Man With the Hat, gracefully sidestepping the controversies that ...

An ancient tomb dating to 600AD unearthed in southern Mexico has been hailed as the “most significant archaeological ...

The key takeaway is that the paintings do not simply show people moving; they encode recognizable ritual elements - like clapping women, dancers in circles, and altered postures associated with trance ...

Nearly 40 years ago, a couple walking their dogs made a discovery which turned out to be one of the most significant finds ...

Madurai: Several cases of cavities and joint diseases like osteoarthritis were found in the human skeletal remains from ...

“Within two scoops of a backhoe wielded by a contractor, two skulls were unearthed,” says Vancouver-based commercial real ...

A new study suggests it had an 'outer' cell that reacted with air to supply a higher voltage. But was it a battery at all?

For the ArchaeoSpain research team, it was a day just like any other on their dig at the castle of Zorita de los Canes (Guadalajara). They were working at the Corral de los Condes, where some knights ...

A smudge of blue on an ordinary-looking stone has forced archaeologists to rethink what Ice Age people in Europe could see, ...

Archaeologists have unlocked the secrets of a “remarkable” 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer which they say is the oldest ...