BBC News reports that deeper analysis of the object revealed that the strange mark was actually a Neanderthal fingerprint, ...

Archaeologists rediscover Ichijodani, a formidable stronghold that flourished amid medieval Japan’s brutal power struggles ...

GRAN PAJATÉN, PERU—The Chachapoya civilization developed between the seventh and the sixteenth century high in the Andes Mountains of northern Peru. They are known for building sophisticated ...

Bronze Age potters working in the city of Hama in current-day Syria appear to have sold more than just cups, bowels, and ...

A mural in the home of Lucas Asicona in the small Guatemalan city of Chajul depicts a dwarf carrying a long stick, two musicians, and a dancer wearing a mix of Spanish and Maya attire. Part of the ...

ARCHAEOLOGY magazine reveals the year’s most exciting finds ...

The stunning frescoes of the Villa of the Mysteries include one room with a painted frieze widely considered to depict an initiation rite into the cult of Dionysus, the god of wine, pictured at ...

JAVA, INDONESIA—Homo erectus, modern humans' archaic hominin relative, was the first human species to migrate out of Africa.One of the places they eventually settled was in Southeast Asia, as H ...

Photograph (left) and 3D surface model (right) showing the locations of lesions on Tagliente 1's left tibia RIPARO TAGLIENTE, ITALY—Evidence of human violence towards other humans during the ...

A small bronze coin found at an ancient site near Tashkent has the potential to reshape archaeologists’ understanding of early Turkic civilization, reports Türkiye Today. According to archaeologist ...