Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

Most of us have skeletons in our closets, but they can also lurk in much less familiar places. Literally.

The discovery at the Maya site of Ucanal in Guatemala “marked a public dismantling of an old regime”—a rather pivotal moment ...

A study led by Professor Dan Lawrence, of Durham University in the UK, found that across 10 millennia, more unequal ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

The road uncovered was measured to be around 13 feet wide, which is bigger than than the average 12 feet single lane in the ...

The early results from a long-awaited excavation of the quarry beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are nothing short of ...

The artifacts discovered in a cave—which include dart tips, a boomerang and a spear-throwing tool—were dated to as far back ...

Proof of an ancient garden, consistent with biblical scripture, has emerged at the holiest site in Christianity — and an ...

Archaeologists in Vienna, Austria, uncovered a significant find: a Roman mass grave from the first century A.D., located ...

The king's mummy and sarcophagus are missing from the royal tomb, which is the second of its kind unearthed this year ...

A new study unveils the potential reason children participated in creating prehistoric cave art. In prehistoric societies, ...