Some of the ancient buildings, located along China’s mountaintop rivers, dated back to as far as 2800 B.C.E., with others ...

A new genetic study of the ancient Chinese city of Shimao reveals a strictly patrilineal society that practised ...

Archaeologists are revealing the secrets of a long-lost Stone Age civilisation – believed to be the oldest in the world. Ongoing investigations by Turkish, British and other archaeologists in ...

The research published on Thursday in Nature presents the first direct genetic evidence regarding the origins of the Shimao ...

Archaeologists suspect the ancient society carried out two types of human sacrifices – one that involved mass burials of men ...

Ancient rock art was meant to be heard as well as seen and now acoustic archaeologists are bringing the sounds of prehistoric ...

Sacrificial victims in mass burials were mostly male, while burial attendants for nobles or elites were overwhelmingly female ...

Can you dig it? Archeologists in Spain have recently uncovered an ancient rock slab with an alphabet inscribed that predates the Rosetta Stone by roughly 400 years. The discovery in southwest Spain is ...

An investigation into the evidence for ancient high technology found across the world. We look into the evidence for ...

A new road trip route designed to help people explore England's prehistoric sites has recommended visiting Cumbria – for not ...