These temporary settlers would generally return after the waters receded, while only a few remained. This began to change around 2013, when those who took shelter refused to return and forcibly took ...

The discovery of plague DNA in a 4,000-year-old sheep bone is rewriting the story of one of humanity’s most feared pathogens, ...

Because these objects are anchored to specific historical contexts, their ages provide a reliable snapshot of the period. The ...

A massive Valley Temple linked to King Niuserre’s sun complex offers an insight into Fifth Dynasty worship at Abusir, Egypt ...

The New Kingdom, which lasted from 1550 to 1070 BCE, was Egypt's peak of power, wealth, and territorial expansion, the era of ...

New data from radiocarbon dating is offering deeper insights into ancient Egypt and its relationship with the volcanic ...

A stunning discovery in Roman Britain has revealed fingerprints left on liquid gypsum used to prepare bodies for burial, ...

Chimpanzee calls activate key human brain voice regions, revealing ancient neural links that may reshape our understanding of language origins.

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Yet, everything changed when archaeologists uncovered a remarkably preserved construction site in Pompeii. Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, the site had retained raw material piles, ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

Archeologists say they have finally cracked the 6,000-year-old mystery of Armenia’s “dragon stones" – massive carved ...