Flagstones, an ancient monument and burial ground in England, is older than Stonehenge, a new radiocarbon-dating study finds.

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

The oldest in Western Europe, this fractured skull has introduced a series of new questions about early humanity.

Ancient buildings like Greece’s amphitheaters and Japan’s temples remain in use today, preserving cultural heritage.

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...

Dating to the year 700 CE, the Afghan Liturgical Quire is on view at the Jewish Theological Seminary Library's exhibit, ...

Archaeologists in Marbella, Spain, have discovered a 200,000-year-old stone with engraving at the Coto Correa site.

Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...

The gold extracted from these mines helped finance the ambitions of Egypt’s rulers, but it came at a significant human cost.” ...

The only other artifacts this ancient were a 1.1 miillion-year-old hominin jawbone (found at the same site in 2007), a slightly older tooth and finger bone from nearby, and several stone tools.