Research into the Shimao culture of Stone Age China revealed a burial pit filled with skulls from about 4,000 years ago.
A digital architectural reconstruction has researchers believing a “lost Pompeii” existed with towers atop villas.
As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté ...
While archaeologists have previously documented a few similar examples of ancient Roman pet monkeys elsewhere, they ...
The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...
Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...
A metal detectorist has discovered a strange Viking Age grave in Norway with scallop shells covering the mouth of the ...
Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.
Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...
An unusual email arrived in the inbox of a faculty member at the department of archaeology at Simon Fraser University in the ...
A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...
The operation saw nine people placed in pre-trial detention and 14 under house arrest in Sicily alone. Charges levied against ...