On Native American Heritage Day, we examine a long-overlooked marvel of ancient engineering that had been tucked away beneath ...

Scientists have long tried to uncover the perilous journey humans took to reach the ancient land mass that now makes up ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

In Spain, the Cave of the Bats, Albuñol, held a major secret: bowstrings discovered in the 19th century predate those used by ...

Archaeologists often seek to understand ancient cultures by studying images left behind on rock faces. While these images ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the ...

Some of the ancient buildings, located along China’s mountaintop rivers, dated back to as far as 2800 B.C.E., with others ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

Continued archaeological exploration at Tell Abraq in modern-day United Arab Emirates uncovered a history of cultural trade ...

Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a ...

Hunter-gatherers at Poverty Point may have built its massive earthworks not under the command of chiefs, but as part of a ...

The torch-lighting ceremony next week for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics will be relocated from the ancient stadium ...