A study of burials at Heraclea Sintica reveals residents of mixed European and African ancestry, highlighting migration and social life.

The text—the tale of a warrior ruler—may help settle a nearly century-old puzzle about the location of the Temple of ...

Ancient mudbrick buildings decay rapidly, hindering our understanding of past cultures. New research on 5th-3rd millennia BCE ...

A newly discovered residential city and Coptic cemetery in southern Egypt highlight daily life, burial practices, and cultural continuity.

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...

Archaeologists working at El Caño Archaeological Park in Panama's Coclé province have completed the excavation of a spectacular elite tomb dating to over 1,000 years ago, filled with gold ornaments, ...

A recently discovered Greek inscription at the base of a column inside the Great Mosque of Homs in Syria has rekindled a longstanding scholarly debate about the exact location of the Temple of the sun ...

In 1974, farmers digging a well in Shaanxi Province uncovered a single life-sized clay warrior - a discovery that quickly revealed one of the greatest archaeological finds in history. Beneath the ...

An international research team has extracted genome-wide ancient DNA from two 7,000-year-old mummified women buried in a ...

Exactly how many master­pieces are held in community-based collections like the Abbey’s is anyone’s guess – as are the safeguards around them – and veteran curator Mr Strong says that’s not good ...

Petroglyphs on sandstone at a national park in Chad bear witness to wildlife that once roamed the area before the continent’s ...