A new study has found that the people who made China’s Terracotta Army may have included women and children, not only adult ...

A new study of 2,316 burials from China’s Central Plain suggests that ancient inequality became durable thousands of years ...

Human history feels straightforward when seen in textbooks. A neat timeline with a clear rise from simple tools to complex cities. But archaeology keeps disturbing that picture slowly and quietly.

The ship was likely transporting huge jars of olive oil or wine across the Mediterranean when it sank to the seafloor. One ...

The "backward-looking curiosity" -- Donkeys and pharaohs -- Reading ancient Egypt -- Digging into Nineveh -- Tablets and tunnelling -- The Maya revealed -- Axes and elephants -- A huge turning point - ...

Read the Portuguese version here. In the badlands of the southwestern Amazon, Antonia Barbosa is fighting to protect ancient archaeological finds from Brazil’s unstoppable $523 billion agribusiness ...

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There is something surprisingly fascinating about standing in front of something that existed thousands of years ago. A ruined city, an ancient temple or even a 500-years old tree that has survived ...

Across our planet lie ancient mysteries that have captivated humanity for centuries — archaeological treasures so precious, dangerous, or sacred that they remain strictly off-limits to the public.

Around 1200 BC, an inscription named the ancient Egyptian city of Mesen; 3,200 years later it may have helped archaeologists locate the lost city T. rex had a body temperature of 36.3°C, almost the ...