A hidden tomb containing the remains of at least 12 individuals and an artifact resembling the 'Holy Grail' has been ...

Wright/Princeton UniversityEver since the first Neanderthal bones were discovered, people have wondered about these ancient ...

One of history’s most controversial, reviled, and yet important figures, the first conquistador, Christopher Columbus, is the ...

King Arthur is undoubtedly one of the most enduringly popular heroes to come out of the medieval era, and he has meant many things to many people for hundreds of years. Over time, the mythology of ...

Studying microscopic layers of dirt dug from the Tam Pà Ling cave site in northeastern Laos has provided a team of Flinders ...

The sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled by one of humanity's most significant ...

Archaeologists performing excavations at a site known as Sinauli in the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India unearthed a ...

Hidden out of sight and forgotten for centuries in the Shoham Community Forest, near the heart of Israel, archaeologists have ...

We often think about our distant ancestors as primitive, equipped with the crudest of tools and a limited set of skills. But ...

A team of Spanish scientists has reached some important conclusions about the cause of death of newborn infants who passed ...

Evidence of Climate Disaster That Could Have Spawned the Ragnarök Myth No, this is not out of the Marvel Cinematic or comic universe, but it does have fantastical qualities: archaeologists in Denmark ...

Shell-ring archaeological sites, “one of the most visible site types along the lower South Atlantic Coast of the United ...