Earliest evidence of poisoned arrows offers new insights into the advanced technology and strategic thinking of prehistoric ...

The first Homo sapiens to arrive in the Americas may have originated in a region covering today’s Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the ...

Archaeologists have identified hundreds of ancient structures hidden beneath the dense canopy of Ecuador's Andean Chocó ...

The Serapeum holds massive stone boxes that display signs of advanced machining, raising questions about the technology used by ancient ...

After studying rocks more than 541 million years old, MIT scientists have found new evidence that some of Earth’s first ...

New chemical analysis of quartz microliths from South Africa confirms that humans were skilled with poison long ago.

The idea of ancient civilisations pioneering orthodontics is irresistible, but archaeology shows their gold dental work ...

Cutting-edge LiDAR technology has revealed an astonishing secret concealed beneath the dense jungle canopy of Ecuador's Andean Chocó: hundreds of pre-Hispanic structures that dramatically expand our ...

For decades, research and understanding of the diverse bone raw material used by the Late Prehispanic Period (~1220 to 330 ...

Archaeologists working at an excavation site in Pompeii have uncovered new evidence that helps explain why ancient Roman buildings have lasted for thousands of years. The discovery points to a special ...

Archaeologists excavating a Pompeii site uncovered the secret behind the longevity of ancient Roman structures: a unique concrete mixture that could chemically repair itself over time. A recent study, ...

A pile of ancient arrowheads from southern Africa still holds traces of toxic plant residue, even after some 60,000 years.