Scientists have introduced a new term for an ancient behavior that may hold the key to understanding humanity's complex relationship with alcohol.

An international team of archaeologists has used cutting-edge high-resolution digital imaging to examine tattoos on a 2,000-year-old ice mummy from Siberia's Pazyryk culture, revealing for the first t ...

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Archaeologists have uncovered a rare, 5,500-year-old Canaanite blade manufacturing workshop near Kiryat Gat in southern Israel, marking the first discovery of its kind in the region.

Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery at the Sant'Andrea Priu archaeological complex in Bonorva, Sardinia, unearthing three previously unknown domus de janas that add significantly to our un ...

Natural coastal processes have exposed a remarkable collection of ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs on Oahu's west shore, offering new insights into the island's early Polynesian inhabitants.

Traditionally, Indigenous peoples almost universally viewed thoroughly putrefied, maggot-infested animal foods as highly desirable fare, not starvation rations. In fact, many such peoples routinely ...

After three centuries buried beneath Mexico's dense Lacandon jungle, archaeologists believe they have finally located Sak-Bahlán - the legendary "land of the white jaguar" and last stronghold of the r ...

Google DeepMind has unveiled an artificial intelligence tool named Aeneas that promises to transform how historians study ancient Roman inscriptions.

Deep within the rolling hills of central Israel, Tinshemet Cave is rewriting our understanding of humanity's earliest burial practices.

A chilling discovery at Spain's Atapuerca archaeological site has revealed new evidence of systematic cannibalism among our earliest European ancestors.