On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one ...

Archaeologists studied Semiyarka, dubbed The City of Seven Ravines, a settlement from 1600 BC that may have been a powerhouse ...

November 2025 marks 100 years since archaeologists first examined Tutankhamun 's mummified remains. What followed wasn't ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...

Only from the air did it reveal what it really was.

The craftsmanship on the spears shows some were likely used in battle, while one may have just been a status symbol.

At the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, the archaeology department has over 1 million artifacts from all over the ...

Excavations of a lost city in Kazakhstan date the site to 1600 B.C.E. and show a remarkably well-developed urban center.

Archaeology, the study of human history through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts, often unearths ...