Earliest evidence found of rice plants in the Pacific on Guam, revealing rituals and a journey from the Philippines 3,500 years ago.
The relationship between archaeology and espionage is close. During the twentieth century, for example, both Britain and the United States recruited archaeologists working in some of the world’s most ...
Unearthed off the coast of Alexandria, the vessel may have once measured 115 feet long. Experts think it would have held a "luxuriously decorated cabin" and a team of 20 rowers ...
Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...
Archaeologists recently found the lost ruins of a ceremonial temple—covered in sand and 4,000 to 5,000 years old—in ...
Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...
The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...
Based on a comprehensive study, researchers are now convinced the shafts were human-made, likely dug during the Late ...
From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...
One of the planet’s most successful arthropods, trilobites, abounded in the oceans from about 520 million to 250 million years ago. Trilobite exoskeletons are found on all seven continents and are a ...
However, recent research challenges this “man the hunter” hypothesis, revealing a more nuanced reality in which women played ...
A groundbreaking genetic study confirms modern humans arrived in Australia approximately 60,000 years ago, settling a ...