Scientists are about to embark on an expedition to Nikumaroro Island. There, they will investigate the Taraia Object, a ...

Researchers have discovered life-size rock carvings of camels, gazelles and other animals in the Saudi Arabian desert. The carvings date ...

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 ...

Some 12,000 years ago, groups of pioneering hunter-gatherers ventured into the harsh Arabian desert. They survived thanks to ...

The Bering Land Bridge likely didn't emerge until around 35,000 years ago, much later than was previously thought. This narrows the window of when humans could have crossed over to North America.

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 ...

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