Copper smelters once used iron oxide to refine copper, unintentionally advancing the path toward iron metallurgy. Research conducted at Cranfield University provides new insight into the shift from ...
An “emotional and inspiring” archaeological find of Paleolithic tools has revealed a long-lost prehistoric passage that may have enabled movement between Ayvalık and Europe. Continuous stretches of ...
By Sonia Fernandez, UCSB Researchers continue to build on a body of evidence for a fragmented comet that is thought to have exploded over the Earth almost 13,000 years ago, […] ...
The defeat of the Persians in 334 B.C. at that location provided a monumental turning point in the success of Alexander and ...
Researchers used drone imagery to analyze the full scope of a massive, 3,000-year-old fortress in the Caucasus mountains.
An interdisciplinary research project on the development of the earliest forms of agriculture shows that early farming ...
By Peter Speetjens Born in the French city of Brest in 1962, archaeologist Stéphen Rostain has worked in the Amazon for more ...
When Genghis Khan died in 1227, he left behind a united Mongolia, a vast empire, and an unsolved mystery—his final resting ...
About 12,000 years ago, high up on a cliff in the desert of northern Arabia, an artist – or perhaps artists – was hard at ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have discovered life-size rock carvings of camels, gazelles and other animals in the Saudi ...
The discovery of huge petroglyphs of camels and donkeys, as well as hundreds of engraving tools, hints at complex early ...
The reconstructions are based on the skulls of four mummified individuals who had masks tightly fitted on their faces.