A tooth from a mammoth that roamed the Siberian steppe more than a million years ago has yielded the world's oldest DNA sequence. It's the first time that DNA has been recovered from animal remains more than a million years old. Previously, the most ancient DNA sample was from a horse that lived between 560,000 and 780,000 years ago

A newly discovered brewery from 3000 BCE—the world's oldest known facility of its kind—could produce enough beer to serve an entire modern-day stadium.

Find backs theory that bluestones first stood at Waun Mawn before being dragged 140 miles to Wiltshire

Eat like a first-century Roman, using recent archaeological discoveries as your guide.

X-rays of 300 skeletons from a city's graveyards show the "bone-crushing" work of labourers.

As one of the most experienced archaeologists studying California's Native Americans, Lynn Gamble knew the Chumash Indians had been using shell beads as money for at least 800 years.

David Keys tells the story of how archaeologists are uncovering the remains of the Medieval Chinese Nanzhao Empire and the grave of its ruler

It was said that all he touched turned to gold. But destiny eventually caught up with the legendary King Midas, and a long-lost chronicle of his ancient downfall appears to have literally surfaced in Turkey.

New online platform aims to turn traditionally scholarly subject into something "easily digestible and fun to explore"

Wooden sarcophagi discovered at site south of Cairo along with funerary temple of Queen Naert

Relics from the favorite hideaway of ancient Rome’s most infamous tyrant have been recovered and put on display by archaeologists.

Early hominins succeeded by being generalists with basic, versatile tools.

An inscription found at the site—dedicated to the Greek goddess of love and beauty—states, "This is the sacred area"

Officials plan to host concerts and theater productions on the new, retractable platform

Squatters reportedly belonging to one family claim site of 5,000 year-old ruins was given to them in the 1970s

Archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, have made the extraordinary find of a frescoed hot food and drinks shop that served up the ancient equivalent of street food to Roman passersby.

Archaeology is the closest thing we have to a time machine. Instead of using flux capacitors, however, archaeologists rely on technology like ground-penetrating radar, scanning electron microscopes, DNA sequencing, and of course, the good-old-fashioned shovel.

A Brazilian dinosaur with stiffened pairs of ribbonlike feathers emerging from the shoulders is unlike any found before.

Archaeologists have unearthed evidence at a place believed to be the historical Jesus of Nazareth’s birthplace. Researcher Ken Dark, a professor at the University of Reading, has a new book about more than a century of archaeological digs at the Nazareth Convent site in the north of modern-day Israel.

Tens of thousands of ice age paintings across a cliff face shed light on people and animals from 12,500 years ago