After revisiting items from a Brazilian museum, researchers think humans may have been hunting whales 5,000 years ago, a ...

Researchers hope to glean further details from the site, including why use of the villa eventually ceased.

The handprints dotting the walls of an Indonesian cave had tapered fingertips, and the team found the prints were nearly ...

Researchers dated the ship by conducting tree-ring analysis, which showed it was built with timber from Pomerania, in ...

Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass believes he's closing in on Queen Nefertiti's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, calling it ...

The armor belonged to a Tuyuhun king and was only believed to be myth.

The president of Mexico called the discovery of a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb in Oaxaca the "most significant archaeological ...

The prehistoric artist likely created the image by spraying ochre mixed with water over a hand flattened on the wall of a ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

Graffiti, produced by an inmate of an ancient Roman prison in Corinth, Greece, contained a chilling message for captors.

While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...