This year, researchers made impressive discoveries across 3 million years of human evolution, most of which relied on DNA, ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

The main hall of Hall of Mental Cultivation in Palace Museum in Beijing. Photo: Xinhua . After nearly a decade of research-based conservation and systematic restoration, the Hall ...

Construction workers doing renovation work on The First Presbyterian Church of South Canaan recently discovered a clay ...

A new study published in Science shows that these plants—called cycads—use infrared radiation from heat as a signal to ...

Back in 2015, two men happened to find millions of dollars worth of ancient Viking treasure. What happened next will stun you. A heavy gold ring. A gold armband. A crystal ball. Then there were the ...

An Ancient Computer That Predicted the Cosmos Discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera around ...

Archaeologists at a Pompeii site buried by the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius have uncovered evidence of ancient Roman ...

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

Earlier this year, the Archaeological Park of Pompeii published its findings from excavations of an orgiastic centre dedicated to the cult of Bacchus. The banquet hall is embellished with frenzied ...

In a groundbreaking discovery that could reshape our understanding of ancient human technology, archaeologists have unearthed a wooden structure dating back ...

In a groundbreaking discovery at Kalambo Falls in northern Zambia, archaeologists have uncovered a wooden structure dating back 476,000 years. This finding ...