Archeologists have made a disturbing discovery of an Aztec tower of human skulls containing sacrificed women and children's ...

A new study of Aztec obsidian artefacts has shed new light on the empire. But one object remains a mystery. Find out more.

Archaeologists have recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor in ...

New findings about Bromeswell Bucket, unearthed in pieces at Sutton Hoo, reveal it was more than an ornamental vessel.

Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being ...

However, a pair of fossilized skull fragments recently found off the Javanese coast are helping experts recontextualize the ...

Photographs authentically show the skull of a mammoth discovered in a farm field in 2015.

Recent testing shows the remains are around 28,000 years old, which supports the idea that these populations did more than ...

Scientists confirm the first known Neanderthal-human hybrid child, buried 28,000 years ago. DNA and rituals reveal two ...

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