An interdisciplinary research project on the development of the earliest forms of agriculture shows that early farming ...

Jane Goodall, the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, has died at the age of 91, the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) ...

The story begins at Kvemo Bolnisi, a smelting workshop perched on a hillside in the Caucasus. Soviet archaeologists first dug ...

Visigoth women may have worn eagle-shaped pins as a symbol of power. These two eagle-shaped pins were discovered in central ...

About 12,000 years ago, a human living in the Arabian desert carved “incredibly beautiful” rock art into a cave’s wall. While we do not know the prehistoric artist’s inten ...

Today’s state of extreme economic inequality is a problem best approached with science — using it to make specific ...

In an archaeological achievement, researchers from Kumamoto University have successfully reconstructed the structure of ...

The University of Aberdeen student was working on a dig in Scotland when she found the relic that could be a rare discovery ...

Eddie Lipsman could barely contain his metal detector when he passed by a large stone in the Sussita National Park in Israel’s Galilee region. “The device went crazy, I couldn’t believe it,” he said, ...

Franz Lidz is fascinated by the eclectic and global nature of the archaeology beat. Franz Lidz ’s introduction to the world ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have discovered life-size rock carvings of camels, gazelles and other animals in the Saudi ...

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 ...