Adeline Morez Jacobs/The ConversationA group of scientists has sequenced the genome of a man who was buried in Egypt around 4,500 years ago.

During routine conservation work at the ancient Palazzone Necropolis in Perugia, Italy, archaeologists have uncovered a remarkable travertine urn that challenges conventional understanding of Etruscan ...

Explorers have stumbled upon what appears to be a massive stone doorway carved into the remote Dzungarian Alatau mountains of Kazakhstan, igniting widespread speculation about its origins.

Konstantine Panegyres/The ConversationThe ancient Greek orator Dio Chrysostom (1st-2nd century CE) said in his speech To the People of Alexandria that there were two kinds of democracy: one good and o ...

Rakhmat rock shelter have unearthed what could be the world's oldest arrowheads, dating back an astonishing 80,000 years.

Aboriginal Australian culture has long been recognized as humanity's oldest continuous living culture, with scientific literature estimating their arrival on the continent at 65,000 years ago.

Jane Kershaw/The ConversationIn the archaeology galleries of the Yorkshire Museum, an incredible Viking silver neck-ring takes centre stage.

Archaeologists excavating the ancient Greek city of Aigai in western Turkey have uncovered a remarkable temple dedicated to Demeter, goddess of agriculture and fertility, containing nearly 1,000 minia ...

Denmark's National Museum has revealed what researchers describe as the closest thing to an actual portrait from the Viking Age: a remarkably detailed 10th-century figurine carved from precious walrus ...

Scientists have finally uncovered direct genetic evidence of Yersinia pestis — the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian — in a mass grave in Jerash, Jordan.

This is partly because early Slavic communities left behind rather little for archaeologists to find: they practiced cremation, built simple houses, and produced plain, undecorated pottery. Perhaps ...

An international research team has identified the world's earliest known evidence of Neanderthal interbreeding with modern humans in a 140,000-year-old child's skeleton discovered in Israel's Skhul Ca ...