An Egyptian archaeological mission has unearthed a pair of 5,000-year-old tombs in Minya Governorate that are shedding new light on the evolution of ancient Egyptian funerary architecture. The ...

A study of the Tamir necropolis in Mongolia has revealed that social status and power played a stronger role than biological kinship in shaping the organization of an elite Xiongnu cemetery. The ...

A massive 2,700-year-old standing stone discovered in a large Iron Age mansion in the Judean Lowlands may provide compelling new evidence for the sweeping religious reforms carried out by the biblical ...

What initially appeared as strange lines and circles in a geomagnetic survey came to reveal the outline of something far more crucial, the Celtic era burial. The grave dates to the Hallstatt period ...

This Native American site, known as Watson Brake, is a seemingly unusual cluster of up to 11 earthen mounds arranged ...

Archaeologists in Ukraine have made a fascinating discovery that sheds new light on the lives of elite women in the ancient world. A rare 2,500-year-old leather cap and belt, decorated with intricate ...

In a remarkable archaeological discovery on the Dalmatian coast, researchers in the Croatian town of Cavtat have unearthed a rare Late Roman sarcophagus that has remained sealed and untouched for over ...

A report of illegal digging on the rural edge of Rome has led archaeologists to one of the most striking recent discoveries in the city’s western countryside: a Roman imperial-period villa with mosaic ...

A new study of botanical remains found with three mummified Inca children atop the Llullaillaco volcano has revealed that their sacrifice likely occurred around 1499, during a period of rapid Inca ...

In the deep, dark passages of Bàsura Cave in northwestern Italy, an extraordinary discovery has shed new light on the ...

One of the individuals with a crushed skull and other skeletal parts of an adult Neanderthal was taken from a shallow scoop grave covered with stones. This was the research team’s first meeting with ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient Inca provincial center of Tambo Viejo on Peru’s arid southern coast have made an extraordinary discovery: two 500-year-old freeze-dried potatoes. Known as chuño, ...