In early November 1927, the front pages of newspapers all over France featured photographs not of the usual politicians, ...

A fragment of a mask that was preserved for hundreds of years in permafrost sat in the muck of a low tide in the western ...

This gilt-copper nose ornament, discovered at the archaeological site of Loma Negra in northern Peru, depicts the important ...

The finding may allow archaeologists to determine whether a woman was pregnant or had recently given birth at the time of her death.

Archaeological excavation in Benin City, Nigeria, ahead of the construction of the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) has ...

The use of AI in archaeology is advancing research on the Hittite civilization, offering deeper understanding of Anatolia’s ...

Is it the long-faded colors of ancient artifacts from all around the world or the hushed sounds of visitors discussing what ...

Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and used stone and bone tools.

When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals interbred with human ancestors ...

Archaeologists recently discovered the remnants of an ancient bishop’s luxurious perk: a vast bathhouse, unheard of among ...

Its first modules were launched in 1998. The first crew to live on the International Space Station – an American and two Russians – entered it in 2000. Nov. 2, 2025, marks 25 years of continuous ...

For centuries, Rapanui oral traditions said the statues “walked” from the quarry—but Western scholars dismissed this as myth, assuming instead that log rollers were used. Research by Dr. Terry Hunt ...