The first Denisovan skull, an ancient hunter’s toolkit and a Roman man’s brain that has turned to glass: here are our picks ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the longest remains of an ancient wall that once encircled Jerusalem during the time of ...

New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition from hunting and gathering ...

Archaeologists working in the historic Turkish city of İznik have revealed a stunning third-century fresco depicting Jesus as the "Good Shepherd"—the only known example of this iconic Christian motif ...

On a cold winter afternoon, as the archaeological work at a well-preserved ancient city site in Longyao county, Xingtai, in ...

A crown was left with the deceased, but its position indicated her reign may not have ended the way she would have liked.

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

Archaeologists finished excavating foundations of the ancient wall that surrounded Jerusalem when the story of Hanukkah took ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire-making, dating back more than ...

The modern-day Bo people of southeastern China have long maintained that they had no connection to those inside the hanging coffins.