Most people today have heard of Merlin the Magician, as his name has been popularized over the centuries and his story has been dramatized in numerous [...]

Historians and archaeologists have long argued about when exactly “Wilson’s Arch” in Jerusalem was built, with their estimates varying by 700 years. But [...]

The “unparalleled” discovery of remarkably well-preserved ancient skeletons in Central American rock shelters has shed new light on when maize [...]

A new archaeological discovery was made during works to enhance the necropolis of Osteria in Vulci. Near the famous tomb of the Sphinx a small dromos has [...]

What caused the disappearance of Homo neanderthalensis, a species which apparently possessed as many capacities as Homo sapiens? There are several theories [...]

New research, published in The Holocene, “fills in the blanks” on what ancient Papuan New Guineans ate, and how they processed food, has ended [...]

An international team of researchers has investigated the earliest humans in Central America and how they adapted over time to new and changing [...]

Integrating radiocarbon dating and microarchaeology techniques has enabled more precise dating of the ancient Wilson’s Arch monument at [...]

The colorful threads, strings, yarns, twines, and ropes that wove together the Neolithic world have greatly rotted back to whence they came, leaving [...]

Ancient humans and Neanderthals, and Denisovans, were genetically closer than polar bears and brown bears, and so, like the bears, were able to easily [...]