The Jiahu Ruins is a well-preserved and culturally rich site from the early Neolithic period, dating back approximately 9,000 ...

The needles were likely crafted using a steelmaking technique known as 'frying.' The Marquis of Haihun’s tomb has offered archeologists invaluable information about life during the Western Han dynasty ...

A team of scientists in Spain has uncovered what is now considered the oldest wine ever discovered in liquid form, found ...

This unique disk-shaped bowl, found in a 5,000-year-old Egyptian tomb, has puzzled archaeologists for nearly a century.

This is the oldest credible archaeological site in North America,” Waters told the New York Times in 2011. It proves that people must have gotten to the Americas in small boats via another coastal ...

When archaeologist Howard Carter and colleagues discovered King Tut's tomb, he reported seeing "wonderful things." The ...

Ancient buildings offer clues to early human life. The Cairn of Barnenez in France dates back to 4850 BCE. Tumulus of Bougon, ...

There’s some debate as to whether the artifact was a weapon or a toy, or both. Thanks to radiocarbon dating, archaeologists have finally been able to date an ancient boomerang first found 40 years ago ...

When it was made: Between 3500 and 3100 B.C. More than five millennia ago, an Egyptian weaver created a simple, tailored linen dress, likely not realizing just how long it would stick around. The ...

Beryl Carr, 103, is in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest female volunteer as she still serves cups of tea in ...

A group of scientists has sequenced the genome of a man who was buried in Egypt around 4,500 years ago. The study offers rare ...