Archaeologists in Spain keep uncovering severed skulls at ancient Iron Age sites, some impaled with iron nails. The discovery ...

In one ancient culture, skulls were severed and then had iron spikes driven through them. However, archaeologists are still ...

As with many practices of the ancient past, it will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to ascertain the reasons behind why the Iberians decorated with skulls nailed to walls. But, as with many ...

A 5th century wooden ‘stitched ship’ – recreated using ancient stitching techniques and constructed using coconut fiber stitching, traditional wooden joinery, coir rope and natural resins and powered ...

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...

In the past, dating the widespread use of iron in India to around the turn of the 1st millennium BCE seemed reasonable. The Hittites, an ancient Anatolian civilisation (c. 1600–1178 BCE) from ...

But those experts may have a surprising new answer thanks to new research that shows the ancient people of the Philippines and ISEA may have mastered seafaring well before anyone else. Proving ...

One of the severed heads found at Ullastret. Credit: MAC-Ullastret a De Prado. Among the ruins of ancient cities scattered across northeastern Spain, archaeologists have uncovered a grisly yet ...

From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.

A new discovery has revealed that a 3,000-year-old treasure hoard in Spain contains iron from a meteorite. Among the dazzling gold artifacts of the Treasure of Villena, a bracelet and a small hollow ...

A new study of ancient DNA from fifth- to sixth-century Hun skeletons suggests they were a motley crew of mixed origin with a few connections to the Xiongnu Empire in Mongolia.