Rice is difficult to grow in the Pacific, so how did it end up in a cave? Archaeologists reveal the hidden history of this ...

Remains of this key transitional species date to a mysterious "black hole" in the fossil record.

Archaeologists have made a ground-breaking discovery inside Egypt's Great Pyramid, finally confirming who truly built the ...

An ancient temple hidden in Bolivia’s highlands is reshaping how archaeologists understand the Tiwanaku civilization, a ...

A new study sequencing the first complete ancient Egyptian genome reveals the 4,500-year-old man had significant ancestry ...

Inscriptions found inside the Great Pyramid of Giza have finally put to bed the long-held belief that the ancient wonder was ...

Two rare Roman cavalry swords discovered in a Gloucestershire field have sparked the excavation of a previously unknown Iron ...

A child’s skull found in Argentina reveals how ancient indigenous peoples practiced skull shaping as part of their cultural ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

Scientists uncovered ancient avocado remains in a Honduran cave, offering genetic clues that could protect the crop from ...

Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...

The Roman Fort Magna, located in Northumberland, has been the site of several ancient footwear discoveries, but one shoe, due ...