A 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet known as the Imago Mundi, or the “Babylonian Map of the World,” recently led British ...

Using digital reconstruction, the face of a Sudanese woman identified by hieroglyphics as “Ta-Kr-Hb” or “Takerheb”, who lived some 2,500 years ago hailing from the powerful Kingdom of Kush, has been b ...

Michelle Langley & Laura Diamond/The ConversationFor the first time, state-of-the-art biomechanics technology has allowed us ...

Archaeologists analyzing lidar data from over the remote forests of Campeche, Mexico, have discovered a profusion of previously unknown Maya structures, including pyramids, residential complexes, and ...

Claire Isabella Gilmour/The ConversationTwelve skeletons have been found in a large, 2,000-year-old tomb directly in front of ...

The ConversationWhen people think of eunuchs, someone like Lord Varys from Game of Thrones often springs to mind.

A unique discovery has merged Norse legend with modern science. Archaeologists have identified a mysterious skeleton known as ...

A remarkable treasure from one of the most transformative periods in English history has been secured for the British nation.

In a brilliant archaeological find on the Danube Plain near Riedlingen, southwestern Germany, a Celtic burial chamber has ...

Archaeologists in the Archaeological Zone of Dzibanché, Mexico, have unearthed three ancient relief facades depicting motifs ...

In a study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a team of scientists led by early-Earth geologist Nadja Drabon from Harvard University describe a scenario that ...

Along the ancient trail of the Silk Road, the long-distance Eurasian trade route that connected Europe and the Middle East with China from the second century BC to around 1450 AD, archaeologists have ...