On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

Archaeologists have recently unearthed the remarkably well-preserved remains of a dog from ancient Rome, shedding light on ...

Researchers found the older ancient Egyptian settlement while they were studying the Greek one. An unexpected discovery of mudbrick dating to the New Kingdom (circa 1550 to 1070 B.C.) revealed the ...

that contains the prehistorical deposits of human activity, and includes the adjacent perennial spring of ‘Ain es-Sultan. By the 9th to 8th millennium BC, Neolithic Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan was ...

Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention of writing. That's according to a new study that challenges ...

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not decrease homogenously during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Significant ...

An Iron Age settlement at the bottom of an Italy lake ... An aerial photo shows Rusovce Mansion during excavations. The ancient Roman aqueduct is visible and looks like a drinking straw-shaped ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a remarkably well-preserved dog from ancient Rome – and the ... the “guardian” of a deceased human’s grave. The animals were often ritually ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a remarkably well-preserved dog from ancient Rome – and the ... the "guardian" of a deceased human's grave. The animals were often ritually ...