For a couple of hundred years, Cahokia was the place to be in what is now the US state of Illinois. The bustling, vibrant city was at one time home to some 15,000 people, but by the end of the 14th century it was deserted

Where ancient humans lived — and when — can be unveiled using DNA extracted from sediment layers dug from cave floors.

A rockshelter in South Africa's Kalahari documents the innovative behaviors of early humans who lived there 105,000 years ago. We report the new evidence today in Nature.

The remains revealed that the government official was wealthy as an adult, but he had a difficult childhood

The grave offers a rare glimpse at the lives of high-ranking Mayan officials.

Archaeologist says ability to think and create objects may not have been restricted to homo sapiens

A digital model has revealed a complex planetarium on the ancient device's face. “Unless it's from outer space, we have to find a way in which the Greeks could have made it,” researchers say.

Anthropologists believed that before the implementation of agriculture, men hunted and women gathered, but new evidence suggests that this might not have been the case.

A team of electrical technicians made the discovery while moving an electrical pole in Monmouthshire.

Archaeologists have unearthed a unique Roman ceremonial carriage from a villa just outside Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD. The almost perfectly preserved four-wheeled carriage, made of iron, bronze and tin, was found near the stables of an ancient villa at Civita Giuliana, about 700 metres north of the walls of ancient Pompeii and close to where the remains of three horses were unearthed in 2018, including one still in its harness.

The well-preserved chariot, complete with decorative medallions depicting erotic scenes, is an "extraordinary discovery" that may have been used in wedding ceremonies.

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"