In ancient previews of the famous Brazilian Carnival, pre-colonial people in Brazil apparently gathered in summer months to feast on migratory fish and share alcoholic drinks, a new study has determin ...

The modern era has witnessed an incredible surge in the popularity of all forms of media concerning the mythology of the ancient Mesopotamians.

At the ancient Motza site, researchers unearthed a tomb dating back to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period (7,100 to 6,700 BC). The burial contained the remains of a woman who may have held a ...

Deep inside Maszycka Cave in southern Poland, researchers discovered something shocking and disturbing about the behavior of prehistoric people who lived in the region around 16,000 BC.

A major archaeological discovery near Sturgeon Lake First Nation territory, the traditional home of the Plains Cree territory in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, is reshaping history, challengin ...

Many scholars who have studied the question have come up with theories about the location of Alexander the Great’s final resting place, which has made this one of the most hotly debated mysteries in a ...

In 2014, a remarkable and unprecendented discovery was made in a plowed field in western Scotland—the Galloway Hoard, the most significant collection of Viking Age artifacts ever unearthed in Britain ...

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While Hitler and his Nazi supporters were wreaking havoc upon Europe —upon the world, for that matter— they also had other ambitions and interests to further their attempts at tyranny, namely, their o ...

During explorations in the rugged and arid Negev Highlands of southern Israel, archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities authority (IAA) stumbled upon something both extraordinary and totally unexpec ...