The rise of the Iron Age —and the complete shift in the way the world worked that it caused—was likely an accident. And ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

When Genghis Khan died in 1227, he left behind a united Mongolia, a vast empire, and an unsolved mystery—his final resting ...

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.