There are good reasons to be drawn to antiquities, but also many reasons to hesitate before buying, starting with concerns about illicit trade. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam Antiquities used ...

Ancient Egyptian guards may have used a tiny cow bone with a hole drilled into it to keep royal tomb workers in order. The strange artifact was discovered in the Akhetaten Stone Village, a workers' ...

A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and that their earliest ancestors may have feasted not on blood, but on smaller ...

Now a leading archaeologist, Rostain was discouraged at first. “No one is interested in archaeology of the Amazon.” ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have discovered life-size rock carvings of camels, gazelles and other animals in the Saudi Arabian desert. The carvings date back to around 12,000 years ago and many are ...

Chemical fossils from 635-million-year-old rocks suggest sponges were among Earth’s first animals, reshaping the story of early life.

Late Cretaceous dinosaurs may have cut back vegetation, creating large floodplains. When the asteroid hit, those floodplains became forests.

Newly discovered prehistoric artwork suggests how a pioneering sect of desert nomads, unknown to history until now, carved out an existence about 12,000 years ago in the harsh environment of northern ...

UAlbany Anthropologist Robert M. Rosenswig's recent paper reevaluates theories of money through the way tally sticks have been used across multiple cultures, including Maya. Credit: Justin Kerr/Justin ...

Pasteli (Greek: παστέλι) the ancient Greek dessert, has very few ingredients, but it has a great deal of history behind it. A very ancient sweet indeed, it is a symbol of fertility and love; its ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to researchers.