Buried for over 3,800 years, a warrior's tomb in Azerbaijan has revealed rare artifacts and cryptic rituals.

The researchers extracted DNA samples from over 180 ancient human remains dating between 17,000 and 3,000 years ago. The ...

The Huns were nomadic warriors, likely from Asia, who are best known for invading and terrorizing Europe in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. and hastening the downfall of the Western Roman Empire.

The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

The National Museum of Romanian History has announced an extraordinary archaeological discovery in Mangalia, southeastern ...

From the pyramids of Egypt to the jungle-choked ruins of Angkor Wat, from the magical desert capital of the Nabateans in Jordan to the everyday Roman lives revealed by Pompeii, ancient sites are ...

A skeleton found in a 4,500-year-old ceramic pot has rewritten the history of Ancient Egypt. A DNA test on the man’s bones has upended how historians could view the rise of Ancient Egyptian ...

This ancient city is a vegetarian traveler's dream In Kutaisi, Georgia, Imeretians still forage in nature for the ingredients that compose their colorful, vegetarian-friendly fare. These ...

Artificial intelligence is helping to solve an ancient mystery from the Roman Empire involving scrolls from a library that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The eruption of Vesuvius in A.D ...

Genetic analysis of skeletons buried in a Neolithic proto-city in Turkey reveals that female lineages were important in early agricultural societies.

Rice is difficult to grow in the Pacific, so how did it end up in a cave? Archaeologists reveal the hidden history of this ancient and well-travelled grain.