If the archaeological record has been correctly interpreted, stone alignments in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge are remnants of shelters built 1.7 million years ago by Homo habilis, an extinct species ...

Proof of an ancient garden, consistent with biblical scripture, has emerged at the holiest site in Christianity — and an ...

"Słupcio" — or "little guy from Słupsk" in Polish — is the name given to the amber bear in 2013, when a Polish kindergartner ...

The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing the remains of ...

“High degrees of inequality are not inevitable in large societies,” said Feinman. “There are factors that may make it easier ...

MEDZHIBOZH, UKRAINE––The oldest evidence of ivory toolmaking was recently identified at the Paleolithic site of […] ...

A mapping expedition in the Tlayócoc cave in Mexico led a professional cave explorer to a hidden chamber containing shocking evidence of an extinct civilization.

Because of this, most archeologists long believed Mediterranean islands like Malta were some of the last wildernesses to ...

Sometime between the mid-first century and early second century CE, Roman legionaries clashed with Germanic fighters near the ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that sheds light on a little-known ice age that may have contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire. "Unusual rocks," discovered in Iceland, are believed to have ...

A new project collects more than 55,000 measurements of housing floor area across thousands of years of human history around the globe.