A placename from a charter from the 10th century and the description of an ancient transaction offer clues related to the ...

A skull partly exposed by erosion beside the Darling River in north-western New South Wales carried a wound that looked startlingly like the work of a sharp blade. The burial was later dated to the ...

The ancient Stoics did not teach that humans should suppress every feeling that arises in their bodies. They understood that many emotions, including shock, fear and pain, as well as a sudden ...

A collaborative mission of Egypt and Spain has discovered a tomb from the Fifth Dynasty, whose painted reliefs retain most of ...

Archaeologists have discovered a vividly colored Roman pet mosaic in Adramytteion, Turkey that contains the names of two ...

Cave art located in eight caves in Ireland may indicate that people were there thousands of years before conventional views ...

Someone engineered a wooden structure 476,000 years ago. Yes you read it correctly… ...

The journal Remote Sensing has published a formal retraction of a peer-reviewed piece of research which claimed that ...

The giant Rainbow Serpent art was not simply a reaction to colonization but a commanding act of cultural continuity, ...

The loud roar of a lion in a Roman arena was the culmination of a process starting far away from the amphitheater. But recent research reveals that the Roman spectacles of ferocious animals were made ...

Viking graves are very rare in this area of Jutland, and the acid soil of the region usually destroys organic materials after ...

Two extraordinary serpent artifacts dating back to almost 3,800 years ago, created from deer antlers and clay, provide a rare ...