A rock shelter discovered in the southern Sinai Desert contains designs and inscriptions spanning a period of 10,000 years, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has announced in two ...

Researchers in Costa Rica have uncovered ancient mastodon and giant sloth fossils, shedding light on the prehistoric giants that once roamed the region.

Chennai: Archaeology students from the University of Madras have found a new Stone Age tool-making site near Vellore. Based on the tools, researchers .

He treated gladiators, advised emperors and wrote medical texts that shaped medical thinking for more than a millennium.

A new archaeological discovery reveals that ancient people in southern Arabia relied heavily on a powerful marine predator, ...

Freshly revealed “virgin surfaces” of Roman wall painting - pigments still largely untouched since antiquity - are emerging again at Villa Poppaea, part of the Oplontis complex in the modern town of ...

A Chinese king’s infatuation with a woman was seen as the reason that a golden age collapsed. Evidence suggests climate change and internal strife played bigger roles.

The shift from cultural acceptance to strict prohibition happened relatively recently in this long timeline. Current policies represent ...

A 2,200-year-old elephant bone discovered in Spain may be the first direct evidence confirming Hannibal’s use of war ...

In 1922, archaeologists uncovered the intact tomb of Tutankhamun, exposing thousands of artifacts placed around the young Egyptian king for burial. Among the gold ornaments, chariots and ritual items ...

Egyptian craftspeople mastered reliable rotary drilling more than two millennia before some of the best-preserved drill sets.” ...

Researchers have identified what may be the earliest known metal drill from ancient Egypt—and it was hidden in plain sight.