While slaves in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii were considered no more than "speaking tools", some received better food ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

If there were a place that could be called the archaeological almanac of Saudi Arabian culture, it would be Tell Abraq, ...

Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's ...

Underwater archaeologists announced they had discovered the ancient wreck of an ancient Egyptian pleasure boat off the coast ...

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

The Hjortspring boat carried warriors on an attempted attack of a Danish island over 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists have new ...

A trove of archaeological artifacts - including thousands of ancient coins - has been discovered during excavations at a home ...

Some of the ancient buildings, located along China’s mountaintop rivers, dated back to as far as 2800 B.C.E., with others ...

Fossils from Qatar have revealed a small, newly identified sea cow species that lived in the Arabian Gulf more than 20 million years ago. The site contains the densest known collection of fossil sea ...

New research reveals a prehistoric shark 115 million years older than Megalodon, rewriting the timeline of shark ancestry.