Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the r ...

A small treasure composed of four gold rings, delicately decorated with incisions and probably forming a necklace or a prestige ornament, has been documented by Romanian researchers. The find, made by ...

The construction of a new road near Perth in Scotland has unearthed the remains of a fortified Iron Age settlement that, after several centuries of occupation, was mysteriously abandoned on the eve of ...

“We hadn’t expected to discover a funerary monument of this age and size here,” said Prof. Mathias Pfeil, curator general of ...

The exploration involved around 200 volunteers who worked as part of the Community Archaeology Program Northern Ireland ...

Stone tools reveal that the First Americans followed a coastal route from East Asia, linking both sides of the Pacific during the Ice Age.

A monumental 5,000-year-old structure has been uncovered by archaeologists in northern Iraq. The excavation at Kani Shaie in Sulaymaniyah Governorate revealed architectural remains dating to ...

In the beginning, there were only myths. For the Greeks, the island of Crete was a distant and strange land and yet the site of some their most important traditions: Zeus was taken there to save him ...

Finding a fragment where the tip was clearly resharpened was exciting, said study first author Francesco d'Errico, a ...

Buried during the Stone Age, this woman once roamed the forests of northern Sweden. Now archaeologists have reconstructed her ...

Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.

Archaeologists say a hilltop settlement near Perth thrived during the Iron Age before mysteriously fading away - possibly ...