There are more than 50 theories for the function of this 12-sided, pentagonal-faced bronze object — but archaeologists have ...

TALK ABOUT A POWER COUPLE! 💖 Despite years of excavating, these University of Houston archeologists had already found their missing piece.

Alexander the Great is one of the best-known figures in world history. He only lived until age 32, dying in Babylon. But ...

WALLKILL — Months after a “once-in-a-lifetime” discovery of mastodon fossils in a homeowner’s backyard last fall, SUNY Orange ...

In July 1860, the Clotilda—the last known slave ship to arrive in the United States—landed in Mobile, Alabama. The wooden ...

Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge ...

The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

Students in a William & Mary anthropology class recently took a trip to Cherokee, North Carolina, to learn about Cherokee ...

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In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

One of the earliest known human burials unearthed in Skhul Cave was a cross between modern humans and Neanderthals with an ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...