Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

The discovery at the Maya site of Ucanal in Guatemala “marked a public dismantling of an old regime”—a rather pivotal moment ...

Most of us have skeletons in our closets, but they can also lurk in much less familiar places. Literally.

A study led by Professor Dan Lawrence, of Durham University in the UK, found that across 10 millennia, more unequal ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

The artifacts discovered in a cave—which include dart tips, a boomerang and a spear-throwing tool—were dated to as far back ...

Archaeologists will coordinate with city crews on an upcoming road work project in Cedar Rapids due to a “unique aspect of ...

This rare state of preservation gave researchers a once-in-a-lifetime chance to study Roman wine in its original, liquid form ...

Archaeologists in Vienna, Austria, uncovered a significant find: a Roman mass grave from the first century A.D., located ...

Proof of an ancient garden, consistent with biblical scripture, has emerged at the holiest site in Christianity — and an ...

A recent archaeological discovery in Ukraine has rewritten the timeline for when human beings began using ivory to construct ...

Archaeologists working in Egypt have unearthed a previously undiscovered school in the grand mortuary temple of Pharaoh ...