Ochre artefacts found in Crimea show signs of having been used for drawing, adding to evidence that Neanderthals used ...

Ancient giant structure discovered beneath Montana soil. Keep reading on The WiC Project Lifestyle Blog & Miriam's Boutique: ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

The find, announced by researchers from the State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw working alongside the University of Warsaw's Faculty of Archaeology, has been described as even more significant than ...

The human remains are thought to be evidence of "strange and incredible" sacrifice rituals dating back to the Iron Age.

Physical proof of barbaric Iron Age ritual killings has been discovered in a field near Bere Regis, in Dorset, after archaeologists uncovered two skeletons dated to between 100 and 50 BC.

In the narrow passageways of prehistoric caves, where torchlight once flickered against limestone walls, a quiet record of ...

A fallen tree in the Amazon has revealed a set of ancient ceramic spheres containing an unsettling mix of remains.

Mask-like facial skull found in China. Credit: Junmei Sawada / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Researchers in China have unearthed a striking collection of ancient crafted human bones dating back 5,000 years, ...

The 4,300 year old woodhenge of Pömmelte in Germany is finally beginning to give up its secrets - and some of the information we’re learning is quite grisly. The battered skeletons of women and ...

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