"Everyone was wrong, and that makes these results even more exciting."

Archaeologists may finally know the age and true identity of the “Rude Man,” also known as the Cerne Abbas Giant, one of dozens of geoglyphs etched into the British countryside.

Remains of man found in Latvia had DNA fragments and proteins of bacterium that causes plague

We have found 140 quarry sites, where rock was excavated to make seed grinding stones, in the Channel Country of Central Australia. It's part of a major project testing Bruce Pascoe's hypothesis.

University of Sheffield’s archaeology team argue vital work will be lost if threatened closure goes ahead

A body found at Herculaneum may have been part of Pliny the Elder's team sent to rescue residents.

It is a scene that exudes sadness: a child perhaps 2-1/2 or 3 years old buried in a shallow grave under the sheltered overhang of a cave, head resting on a pillow and the upper part of the body carefully wrapped in a shroud.

Italian archaeologists believe most of Neanderthals were killed by hyenas then dragged back to den

Scientists say cave paintings in Spain, thought to have been by our ancestors, were actually by Neanderthals. So did they teach us everything we know?

‘Quite spectacular’ discovery shows three-year-old child was carefully laid to rest nearly 80,000 years ago

‘Quite spectacular’ discovery shows three-year-old child was carefully laid to rest nearly 80,000 years ago

Tomas Karlsson thought he saw 'metal garbage' while out updating a map. Turns out it was ancient treasure dating back 2,500 years. 

Egyptian archaeologists working on the Nile Delta have uncovered dozens of rare predynastic tombs dating to the period before Egypt's Pharaonic kingdoms first emerged more than 5,000 years ago.

Ishi-no-Hoden is one of Japan's most mysterious and bewildering monuments, a gigantic stone structure in the shape of an old tube TV almost 6 meters (20 ft) high and 500 tons (560 US tons) in weight that seems to float over a pond in the city of Takasago, Hyogo Prefecture.

Seated in a yellow plastic laundry basket attached to two thick ropes, I was lowered into the earth. The light got dimmer, the temperature colder. A musty smell filled the air. The only sound was from the workmen above handling the ropes and yelling “shweya” — slowly.

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