High in the mountains of northwest China, archaeologists have uncovered a vast network that had remained unnoticed for ...

The extent of an incredible dinosaur highway has been revealed in Bolivia, a country where actual skeletal fossils are rare.

Scientists have sequenced RNA from a nearly 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth leg, the oldest ancient RNA ever recovered. These ...

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Oldest remains found in Antarctica raise new questions about early human exploration—could they date back to the 19th century?

A volunteer, digging near the cold stone of Hadrian’s Wall, made a startling discovery: an ancient silver ring featuring a delicately carved intaglio. The find pulls the curtain back on the lives of ...

The discovery of a peculiarly shaped skull by archaeologists has illuminated a previously unknown ritual deformation process.

A previously unknown medieval castle has emerged from the Swiss landscape after a researcher studying high-resolution terrain maps identified telltale features of an early fortification near ...

Archaeologists working at the animal cemetery at Berenike have documented remains from three dozen primates, marking a significant shift in Roman pet-keeping practices. Previously, the handful of ...

Scientists found the first natural proof that underwater volcanoes make ammonia without biology, a reaction that may have ...

New research suggests that ‘early human pioneers’ in Australia interbred with archaic species of hobbits at least 60,000 ...

A Great Wall excavation in China uncovers the largest known cannon in the Jiankou section and evidence of early cultural ...