A new study led by Dr. Aurélie Manin from the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford has traced the incredible ...

This was the office of Salem Abdullah, archaeological director of the ancient city of Assur, which once thrived on this rock as the capital of the Assyrian Empire. Abdullah, who was raised in a ...

Andean people of the past looked at these strings as a record of the climate, and they studied them to understand patterns.

Inside that coprolite (a fossilized piece of dung) paleontologists have discovered the oldest physical evidence of ...

A sequence of footprints hidden deep within a long-dried paleo‑lake bed were discovered in 2021 by archaeologists, pushing back the purported arrival of early North American settlers between 23,000 an ...

Sea-level rise has eroded beaches all over the Northwest. And some of these places include important archaeological sites.

With “P’unchaw,” the photographer Victor Zea captures the light falling on Cuzco, Peru, where people have mixed Catholic and ...

Ancient human figurines have been found. Some of the oldest known paintings in the world are in the Cave of the Castle, in Cantabria in the north of Spain. Thought to be more than 40,000 years old ...

Research Team Traces Evolutionary History of Bacterial Circadian Clock on Ancient Earth May 20, 2025 — To better understand the circadian clock in modern-day cyanobacteria, a research team has ...

The Robberg is one of southern Africa’s most distinctive and widespread stone tool technologies. Robberg tools – which we ...

Winegard writes in his sprawling new book, “The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator ... The disease killed the ancient Greeks and Romans—as well as the peoples who tried ...

While the archaeological site draws scores of visitors to Peru annually, here are 10 lesser known secrets hidden beneath its layers of history ... 50 miles west of the ancient Incan ruins.