The defeat of the Persians in 334 B.C. at that location provided a monumental turning point in the success of Alexander and ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

The prehistoric paint box and its pigment was found in a palaeolithic riverside campsite. As well as the paintbox itself, archaeologists also found numerous stone tools and arrowheads - and a ring of ...

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

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

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

The marble sculpture, discovered at Chersonesos Taurica in Crimea in 2003, has been identified as a woman named Laodice ...

A new study has uncovered the oldest written rejection of the Shroud of Turin, a religious relic purported to have been the linen wrapped around Jesus upon his death. A treatise by the theologian ...