The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

Archaeologists have discovered one of the largest settlements ever identified in Ireland's Baltinglass hillfort landscape.

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An unassuming grave on the western shore of the Black Sea has pushed the story of gold back to a far earlier chapter than anyone expected. The burial, part of a prehistoric cemetery near the modern ...

Paleontologists have discovered the first known fossilized bee nests built inside ancient bones, uncovered in a cave that ...

Understanding this crucial point in human history has focused on the Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site in Georgia where ...

A researcher has documented a cleft lip in an ancient mummified head from the Andes, a condition that may have been seen as a ...

The burial mound of China’s first emperor has remained untouched since workers sealed it in 208 BC, even as the surrounding necropolis has become one of the world’s most famous archaeological sites. I ...

New findings at Oluz Höyük reveal rare Phoenician presence in central Anatolia through unique infant burials and Carthaginian ...

Mexico is filled with ancient wonders, including pyramids. These structures aren't just impressive piles of stone—they're ...

National Geographic Explorer Peter Campbell provides an inside look at the early stages of a heritage crime investigation. Peter Campbell examines a Gandharan stucco head of a bodhisattva, an ...

Novosibirsk archaeologists and anthropologists have described a previously little-studied burial site of the Pazyryk culture, ...