
Ridiculously cute prehistoric animal-shaped baby bottles found in Europe
For the first time, researchers have analyzed residue within small clay bottles with spouts dating back to the Neolithic era thousands of years ago, and...
For the first time, researchers have analyzed residue within small clay bottles with spouts dating back to the Neolithic era thousands of years ago, and...
Though they were first discovered in a Scottish cave in 1836 by local schoolchildren, they remain a mystery nearly 200 years later, with various theories,...
Somewhere in the deep jungle of Southern Mexico, an ancient Mayan city known as “the white jaguar” has lain undisturbed since it was abandoned hundreds...
Between 1994 and 2007, archaeologists began excavating around the ancientĀ PictishĀ church of St. Colman atĀ Portmahomack, whichĀ is located in northeast Scotland. What they found intrigued them: An...
Archaeologists from the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute have uncovered the burned ruins of a city sacked by the Hittites 3,500 years ago during the...
While we know a great deal about the Vikings thanks to books, documentaries, and other sources of information, what do we really know about how...
A massive global study by archaeologists has revealed that humans began seriously screwing up the Earth thousands of years earlier than we thought. When we...
For decades, archaeologists have believed that the earliest humans in North America were the prehistoric Clovis Paleo Indians, who supposedly crossed a land bridge between...
There was a time millions of years ago when dinosaurs roamed the land and thrived across North America, even into the tropics. Just imagine for...
The year 1066 is one of the most important in the history of the United Kingdom and the British monarchy as William the Conqueror defeated...
Upon first finding the children’s bodies, archaeologists who discovered them must have been stunned, bewildered, and saddened. Why would anyone ever ritually sacrifice hundreds of...
Archaeologists in France have uncovered rare monolith stones for the first time in the central part of the country at a site containing a skeleton...
A 2,800 year-old stone artifact found in Jordan during an excavation at a Moabite sanctuary in the ancient city of Ataroth in Jordan is providing...
This has been one of the hottest and driest summers on record across Europe, and a drought across portions of the continent has devastated farmers....
An archaeological team from Queen’s University Belfast has discovered that the Vikings saved Ireland during a steep population decline lasting nearly 300 years in first...
The Egyptian pyramids are miracles of construction and scientific achievement, which is even more amazing when you consider that they were built thousands of years...
In yet another stunning find by archaeologists across the pond in the United Kingdom, pieces of lumber submerged off the coast of the Isle of...
High in the Himalayan Mountains lies India’s mysterious Roopkund Lake, which is also eerily known as Skeleton Lake, due to the fact that the bones...
Water and erosion can be helpful to archaeologists by revealing the best places to excavate, but it can also be a curse, which is why...
Homer’s epic “The Odyssey” straddles the line between myth and history, but a team of researchers believe they have found the cave location that inspired...
There has long been a mystery around a structure surrounding one of the most important Mayan archaeological sites in Mexico: A two-mile long wall that...
For years, the The University of Edinburgh’s Anatomical Museum has called her “Hilda,” and kept her skull for a very important and historical reason: She...