The wealthiest grave containing the oldest golden artifacts ever found from the 5th millennium BC was discovered in the 1970s ...

At Ain Ghazal in modern-day Jordan, archaeologists uncovered statues over 9,000 years old—among the oldest known large-scale human representations in the world. Made from lime plaster and reeds, these ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...

Discoveries ranging from the oldest known example of human mummification to first deliberate use of fire by people were made ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Explore the tragic events surrounding The oldest hatred as Chanukah is remembered amid recent violence against Jews.

"If you're doing fieldwork for many months, the feeling of receiving a letter—an actual tangible—letter is such a lift," said ...

On a low rise in southeastern Turkey, a ring of carved stone pillars has forced archaeologists to rethink how civilization ...

Unique, Not Universal (1996), should have received far more attention, especially in light of its contemporary relevance. In ...

Archaeological excavations across Türkiye in 2025 yielded some of the most remarkable discoveries of recent years, spanning humanity’s earliest symbolic expressions to major finds from the Classical, ...

The Bondi Beach shooting left 15 dead and over 40 people injured. Among the victims was 87-year-old Holocaust survivor Alex ...