Excavation

If it was happening on the Danube River, Rome was gonna know about it.

Similarities in fabrication techniques suggest that Paleolithic people passed on their methods — and may have shared them with other groups.

Remains of what may be the ancient capital city of the Kingdom of Lyncestis have been found in North Macedonia.

Human ancestors may have used the tools to hunt large game in present-day South Africa.

Penn Museum and Egyptian archaeologists, alongside the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, have discovered a massive tomb of an unnamed pharaoh at the…

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of at least five woolly mammoths at a site in Austria. The remains suggest that ancient humans processed the mammoths' ivory tusks 25,000 years ago.

Artifacts and human remains from Tinshemet Cave in central Israel indicate that modern humans and Neanderthals in the Levant interacted with each other. The post New evidence: humans and Neanderthals interacted in Israel first appeared on EarthSky.

A king's tomb dating back around 3,600 years has been discovered at Abydos, Egypt.

DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals that European hunter-gatherers may have visited North Africa by boat around 8,500 years ago.

A large-scale fresco in an ancient banquet hall "sheds light on the mysteries of Dionysus in the classical world."

These striking puppets suggest that Indigenous people in what is now El Salvador had rituals that were more connected to the rest of Central American culture than previously thought.

A group of veterans and military personnel made the discovery in Wales.

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Learn more about the Durotriges, the first known matriarchal society found in Europe.

Archaeologists have unearthed a unique stone structure in East Jerusalem, providing evidence of cultic activity and possibly animal sacrifice in the Kingdom of Judah during the First Temple period.

Husbands joined their wives' communities and 'close inbreeding was avoided.'

Archaeologists have discovered 321 silver coins still wrapped in a cloth and lead pouch from a time in English history marked by upheaval due to the coronation of a new Anglo-Saxon king.

The largely intact case weighs as much as an 'adult male polar bear.'

The University of Haifa recently announced that 160 ancient coins depicting Alexander Jannaeus were found during an excavation in the Jordan Valley in December.

MORE than a dozen Egyptian mummies embellished with gold tongues and fingernails have been uncovered by archaeologists. Surrounded by ancient amulets, the colourful 2,000-year-old tombs were found …