According to a statement released by Leiden University, a groundbreaking ancient DNA study has provided new information about a pivotal transitional period in prehistoric Europe. The research ...

A Paleolithic teenaged boy whose remains were discovered in northwest Italy's Ardene Candide cave in 1942 immediately earned the nickname Il Principe, or “the Prince,” because of the richness of the ...

This is particularly the case in Vietnam, where tooth blackening has been well documented in modern times, but archaeologists have long wondered about when the practice first began. According to a ...

According to a statement released by the University of Sydney, seabird guano may have been a major factor in the rise of Peru’s precolonial Chincha Kingdom, a powerful coastal polity that reached an ...

1927 photograph of drill (left); recent photographs of artifact (right) BADARI, EGYPT—According to a statement released by Newcastle University, archaeologists have identified the earliest known metal ...

Ancient written sources record that when Alexander the Great returned to Mesopotamia from the Indus Valley around 324 b.c., he founded a strategic new port in the region, known as Alexandria on the ...

A beautifully crafted sword was among the many extraordinary burial objects—including knives, spears, brooches, […] ...

These figures stood in stark contrast to those the visitors had seen in the exquisite painting of a Dionysian initiation at a recent party in an opulent seaside villa. Holding a wine glass in one hand ...

Around 4,600 years ago, a Neolithic Chinese civilization known as the Shijiahe culture flourished in the Middle Yangtze ...

Inca polities on Peru’s south coast,” says Bongers. “They were particularly famous for their mercantile activity.” The Band of Holes occupies a transitional zone between the coastal plain and the ...