Archaeologists in Crete have uncovered a 3,800-year-old Minoan ritual of demolishing tombs and a communal feast.

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered ancient Mayan pottery in a cave system a little more than 10 miles away from downtown Playa de Carmen.

In a breakthrough that blends ancient design with modern materials science, researchers at the University of Houston have ...

Following a recent study, Dr. Przemysław Bobrowski and his colleagues published new radiocarbon dates on Holocene (11,700 ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a 2,900-year-old factory that produced Tyrian purple dye — a luxurious commodity for ...

Use of colours in pre-historic era Humans have been long fascinated by colour, which has played a significant role since the ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

Remains of what may be the ancient capital city of the Kingdom of Lyncestis have been found in North Macedonia.

Göbekli Tepe, a 7,000-year-older site than the Egyptian pyramids, is the world’s oldest monumental structure, offering a new ...

A rare find in the Arizona desert is the oldest firearm ever discovered in the United States, and it could be the oldest in ...

Yet the answers remained elusive — until his quest connected him remotely with researchers at the Jingdezhen Ancient Ceramic ...