Archaeology

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A new facial approximation offers insight into one of humankind's extinct relatives, Homo floresiensis.

Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have uncovered the remains of a 400-year-old wooden ship during a rescue excavation in the city of Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias, Mexico.

A recent expedition by an archaeology team from the Universities of Auckland and Canterbury to Enderby in the Auckland Island archipelago plans to answer remaining questions about Māori voyaging and life on the island dating back to 1400 CE.

The face of a 16-year-old woman buried near Cambridge (UK) in the 7th century with an incredibly rare gold and garnet cross has been reconstructed following analysis of her skull.

Mystery Of Pyramids Submerged On Cuba Coast More Than 50,000 Years Ago In 2001, a Cuban-Canadian research team discovered what could be the ruins of an ancient city that sank more than 50,000 years ago between

The Tartessos were a Bronze Age society that flourished in the Iberian Peninsula in southern Spain some 3,000 years ago. They were a near-mythic civilisation, rich in resources and technologies. But the advanced society vanished mysteriously some 2,500 years ago. Researchers are now looking into how and why the Tartessos...

A new study out of the Complexity Science Hub concludes that social disintegration and violent conflict played a crucial role in shaping the population dynamics of early farming societies in Neolithic Europe Complexity scientist Peter Turchin and his team at CSH, working as part of an international and interdisciplinary...

VIDEO : In a groundbreaking discovery, the Loire Valley in France has revealed the oldest cave engravings known in the region, and possibly in all of Europe.

Canada's Crawford Lake may hold evidence that humans have fundamentally changed Earth enough to have started the Anthropocene, a new chapter in geologic time.

A stone head found at the bottom of Lake Nemi in Italy’s Lazio region may be from Caligula’s Nemi ships.

Experts say the flatbread depicted in the 2,000 year-old fresco may be a precursor to the Italian dish.

The new discovery of ancient stone artifacts at an underwater spring off the Western Australia Pilbara coast has confirmed the location is a submerged archaeological site where more ancient Aboriginal artifacts are likely hidden beneath the sea.

A team of archaeologists and computer scientists have created an AI program that can translate ancient cuneiform tablets instantly using neural machine learning translations.

Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have announced the discovery of a previously unknown Maya city in the forests of the Balamkú ecological reserve in the Mexican state of Campeche.

A study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE has provided evidence to date the age and origin of engravings discovered on a cave wall in France.

Religious site contains burial mound serving as a solar calendar as well as remains of about 60 people

The earliest people who lived in North America shared the landscape with huge animals. On any day these hunter-gatherers might encounter a giant, snarling saber-toothed cat ready to pounce, or a group of elephantlike mammoths stripping tree branches. Maybe a herd of giant bison would stampede past.

Accounts, embellished by William Shakespeare, tell how the Roman dictator was stabbed to death by a group of aggrieved senators on the Ides of March - March 15 - in 44 BC.

Mapping technology cut through the canopy to detect sprawling urban structures in Bolivia that suggest sophisticated cultures once existed

Found off of Croatia, the hand-sewn vessel will be the subject of extensive study once it's back on dry land

The remains of a Great Wall castle dating back to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) were discovered in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, said the Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology Tuesday.

The Mayan ruin of Ichkabal is opening for visitors for the first time in History after undergoing decades-long conservation works.

Archaeologists in Iceland have found a sandstone carved with a Viking ship that may be the oldest picture ever found in the country.

Analysis of satellite imagery in southern Jordan by the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) project has identified a series of three Roman marching camps to the east of Bayir. These are probable evidence of a military expedition toward Dûmat al-Jandal in the Jawf region of Saudi Arabia. Although...