Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a young man who lived 6,000 years ago — and survived a brutal encounter with ...

The mummified remains of a man buried close to a turquoise mine in Chile's Atacama Desert suggest he was a miner who died in ...

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him both ...

Buried for 4,500 years in Egypt's scorching sands, a ceramic pot preserved a laborer's skeleton that now upends long-held views of ancient isolation. DNA from this Old Kingdom man reveals genetic ties ...

The Romans knew their way around Europe. They also knew how to build with a view. A 2,000-year-old stone wall unearthed in a ...

Researchers are using chemical and mineral analysis to trace the origins of ancient pottery in Israel, building a national ...

The previously unknown settlement appears to have been abandoned at some point in the 1300s, but researchers don't know why ...

Archaeologists often focus on what skeletal remains can tell about how and when ancient peoples died. But an individual’s ...

The box was excavated from a Roman-era grave in England. It was found among a trove of artifacts spanning roughly 8,000 years ...