On the summit of Mount Zion in Jerusalem stands one of the most sacred sites in the Holy City—a place revered by three of the world's major religions.

Newly published research suggests that prehistoric Homo sapiens developed innovative ways to protect themselves from increased ultraviolet (UV) radiation during periods of extreme instability in Earth ...

The Antikythera Mechanism has long been hailed as a marvel of ancient technology, frequently referred to as the world’s first analog computer.

Near a quiet bend of the Danube River in Lower Austria, obscured by floodplains, there is a relic of a long-forgotten frontier.

If the archaeological record has been correctly interpreted, stone alignments in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge are remnants of shelters built 1.7 million years ago by Homo habilis, an extinct species repre ...

Outperforming even the most voracious and ruthless human invaders, the Black Death decimated English towns of all sizes in ...

A team of Polish archaeologists has been credited with one of the most extraordinary finds in recent memory in Peru.

French archaeological mission, composed of experts from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, France’s National Center for ...

The Denisovans are the most enigmatic and mysterious of human ancestors, and also one of the most fascinating.

Many different causes likely contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire, in the various stages of that phenomenon.

Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala, a global team of ...

A team of prehistoric archaeologists from Tel Aviv University has proposed a new hypothesis to explain a long-standing mystery: Why did ancient humans bring very young children deep into underground c ...