BRUSSELS, BELGIUM—More than 800 Paleolithic artifacts have been recovered from a dried lake bed in Iraq’s Western Desert by researchers from the Free University of Brussels, according to a Cosmos ...

Elderly and ailing, a potter named Georges-André Colas penned a six-page letter to the Regional Archaeological Service of Burgundy in October 2008. “Dear Sir or Madam, although I am aware of the ...

After a century of searching, a chance discovery led archaeologists to one of the most important sanctuaries in the ancient Greek world Archaeologists first explored Eretria in the late nineteenth ...

Facial tattoos have been found on the mummified remains of children who lived in Nubia some 1,400 years ago, when ...

New DNA analysis of the remains of a Roman-era individual known as Beachy Head Woman indicates that she came from ...

ArtNet News reports that excavators working in the ancient Roman town of Oplontis, three miles west of Pompeii, have ...

Homo erectus is thought to have migrated out of Africa some 1.8 million years ago. Did other species migrate out of Africa as well at this time? The Dmanisi skulls differ from Homo erectus, do not all ...

TEMPE, ARIZONA—According to a statement released by Arizona State University, a second hominin lived in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift with Australopithecus afarensis some 3.4 million years ago.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Oxford University analyzed sediments from third-century a.d. […] ...

A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.

ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT—Built in the third century b.c., the Lighthouse of Alexandria was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Reaching a height of 330 feet, it was one of the world’s tallest ...

By looking at mother-infant experiences together, we can observe the long-lasting impact urbanization has on the health of ...