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

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

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Highlighted engravings at Jebel Misma. Sahout Rock Art and Archaeology Project. Researchers in northern Saudi Arabia’s Nefud ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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