The purpose of such an elaborate structure remains a big open question

Previous studies suggest volcanic winter caused a population bottleneck 74,000 years ago.

Until now, there's been little evidence our evolutionary relatives could swim.

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79, the damage wreaked in nearby towns was catastrophic. Now it appears the heat was so immense it turned one victim’s brain to glass – thought to be the first time this has been seen.

Thousands of years before Monopoly, people were playing games like Senet, Patolli and Chaturanga

Fresh evidence shows two prominent south-west Victorian volcanoes, Budj Bim and Tower Hill, erupted at least 34,000 years ago and that people were in the area before those eruptions.

New species said to have been four times heavier than emperor penguin

A site unearthed in the Kimberly region of Western Australia offers glimpses into First Nations life before and after the Ice Age.

Long before climate change drove them to abandon their thriving cities, a group of hunter-gatherers settled in the Indus River Valley as farmers, leading to the creation of one of the world's first large-scale urban societies, complete with booming e

‘We have a solution that allows us to generate information beyond the limit of ancient DNA and can be applied to any large mammal species’

The remains of a 5,000-year-old city are discovered in Israel, with archaeologists saying the immense urban construction drastically changes their understanding of the period.

Scientists used near-infrared spectroscopy to spot telltale lesions in mummies' arteries.

Rare, submerged tool suggests Neanderthals had mastered the complex technology of tarmaking

Afortress wall dating 7,000 years back to the Chalcolithic Age has been unearthed at the Yumuktepe Mound in southern Turkey's Mersin province. The Yumuktepe Mound is highly significant as a continuous settlement for 9,000 years since the Neolithic Age.

We invoke their name as an insult, but continuing discoveries about the extinct Neanderthal culture suggest the existence of a rich, complex symbolism we still do not fully understand. Now, we have another artefact to admire.

Archaeologists said Wednesday they have made the largest-ever discovery of mammoth remains: a trove of 800 bones from at least 14 of the extinct giants found in central Mexico.

The discovery of 800 bones could be the first evidence that humans hunted mammoths using traps.

Infrared images show a range of markings on seven female mummies, raising questions about ancient Egyptian tattoo traditions.

We don't know their names, but two people who lived and died in Bronze Age Greece 3,500 years ago were obviously hugely important to the people around them. Archaeologists have just found their tombs, so opulent they were once lined with gold leaf, a

Archaeologists recovered the remnants of an ancient "Book of Two Ways" from a sarcophagus