Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

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

Two major Chinese archaeological projects exploring early civilization development have been selected for the major field ...

The find could reshape archaeologists' understanding of the Mayan civilization's contact with other empires.

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The project includes the UNESCO heritage site Göbeklitepe – "Potbelly Hill" in Turkish – which is home to the oldest known ...

From ancient cities buried beneath the sands to mummies revealing new secrets, 2021 brought a wave of remarkable archaeological discoveries. This roundup highlights the most groundbreaking finds—from ...

A major archaeological discovery in Suffolk shows that early Neanderthals were making fire about 400,000 years ago, pushing ...

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Right down to the Holy Grail ... almost.

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

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