Studying ancient history means encountering some unsettling traditions. For me, that included learning about “sunjang,” a ...

A monumental archaeological excavation in Africa has uncovered the lives of the humans who lived there 100,000 years ago.

New research casts doubt on early humans arriving in the Americas, challenging a Chilean site dated for decades to 14,500 ...

Homo erectus may have deliberately selected rocks embedded with fossils and crystals to craft their hand axes.

A scholar reinterpreting historical and archaeological evidence in present-day Switzerland believes the Helvetians retained ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a previously unknown remnant of Thomas Jefferson’s era at Monticello: a brick kiln used to ...

They’re not the six-sided dice we’re familiar with now, but these ancient tools were crucial for rudimentary games of chance 12,000 years ago.

Dinosaurs will return to Mid-America Science Museum starting April 25 with the exhibit "Expedition: Dinosaur." ...

The results are transforming how scholars understand human history. By analysing parchment, researchers are uncovering ...

A newly identified papyrus reveals lost verses by ancient Greek philosopher Empedocles, shedding new light on his teachings.

About 1,500 years ago, in what is now South Korea, a gruesome practice known as ‘sunjang’ dictated that servants, retainers, ...

A multidisciplinary study conducted by researchers from the Department of Prehistory, Archaeology, Ancient History, Medieval ...