The oldest previously known funeral pyre in the world was discovered in Alaska and dates to approximately 11,500 years ago, but that cremation involved a young child rather than an adult. Some burned ...

People also invested and traded in precious goods, like artworks. When the Romans sacked the city of Corinth in 146 BC, they stole the city’s collection of famous artwork, and later sold the ...

Analysis of bone arrowheads from prehistoric Argentina has unveiled evidence of sophisticated craft production among communities that thrived over 700 years ago. The study demonstrates that Late ...

These thirty remarkable discoveries from 2024-2025 represent only a fraction of the archaeological treasures emerging from soil, sand, and sea around the world. Each find adds another piece to the ...

The Baltinglass hillfort cluster, sometimes referred to as "Ireland's Hillfort Capital," has long fascinated archaeologists with its exceptional concentration of prehistoric monuments. According to ...

Archaeologists have discovered a rare 1,400-year-old limestone mold at Hyrcania in the Judean Desert that was used to manufacture small devotional flasks for Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land.

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magifrom the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it ...

Archaeologists working at a Bronze Age cemetery in northwest China have uncovered pottery vessels containing residue that reveals a sophisticated brewing technique dating back nearly 4,000 years. The ...

Amateur detectorists exploring the historic fields near Gietrzwałd, Poland, have unearthed a remarkably rare medieval flail weapon known as a kiścień - only the fourth such artifact ever recorded in ...

The Chinchorro people, who inhabited the coastal regions of what is now northern Chile and southern Peru beginning around 7000 BC, developed the earliest known artificial mummification techniques - ...

Archaeologists excavating sites on Russia's Taman Peninsula have uncovered remarkable evidence of ancient innovation—carefully crafted bone skates made from horse bones that enabled ancient peoples to ...