The fourth-century a.d. Chronicles of Huayang, the oldest surviving Chinese geographical survey, records that Sichuan was ...

According to a Science in Poland report, Marta Osypińska of the University of Wrocław and Piotr Osypiński of the Polish ...

GIA LAI PROVINCE, VIETNAM—According to a VN Express report, the remains of 32 Vietnamese soldiers and wartime artifacts were discovered in Vietnam’s Central Highlands during the construction ...

According to a BBC News report, a pit containing waste materials perhaps left behind by a pub was unearthed during an investigation conducted ahead of a construction project in southeastern England’s ...

ANKARA, TURKEY—Hurriyet Daily News reports that a bathhouse and a tannery dated to the Ottoman period have been uncovered in Ankara’s Ancient Roman Theater and Archaeopark. Researchers from the ...

As much as 100,000 years ago, modern humans in southern Africa began to settle down. Just how and why this momentous shift in our distant ancestors’ way of life occurred is difficult for ...

The woeful state of Viking bathrooms could be a factor behind smokers’ coughs in Scandinavia. Sometimes in human evolution, populations adapt in ways that aren’t always beneficial in the long run.

For millennia, hunter-gatherers living around Lake Superior created utilitarian objects such as projectile points, knife blades, and awls out of copper. Today, these Archaic period societies are ...

Side-scan sonar image of archaeological site 1Ba704, the wreck of Clotilda. The dotted lines show the ship’s stern and full projected length. Having been enlisted to lead the project to try to ...

Sixteen of the mysterious geoglyphs known as the Nazca Lines depict birds—more than any other type of plant or animal. A team of researchers from Japan recently set out to determine which bird ...

DONEGAL, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND—A slab of bog butter weighing nearly 50 pounds was discovered by a farmer digging a drain in a bog near Ireland’s northwestern coastline, according to a report in ...