The Derveni papyrus, an ancient Greek papyrus roll, is considered to be Europe's oldest surviving readable manuscript.

The artifacts were found at the site of a temple from the 3rd century C.E. in central London. The temple was dedicated to Mithras, a deity of a mysterious religion in the Roman Empire.

Ancient bacterial DNA offers rare insights into how microbes evolved alongside their hosts and how they connect to species ...

Researchers at Big Bend National Park found a fascinating finding of possibly the oldest ancient weapons in North America.

Shi’s Star Catalog has been notoriously difficult to date, but new research suggests astronomers drafted it centuries before its Western counterpart.

A summer archaeological field school at the Manell River in Malesso' yields discoveries that could rewrite Guam's ancient ...

Boomerangs, gracefully curved artifacts used for hunting, are quintessentially Australian. Or so we thought. More than 40,000 years ago, when mammoths still roamed the frigid plains of Ice Age ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered rare artifacts from an ancient African Christian community in Israel, revealing a glimpse into life in the Negev Desert 1,500 years ago.

Ancient written languages emerged as a revolutionary development in human history, allowing civilizations to record important ...

TEHRAN—Chogha Golan region in Mehran county, Ilam province, is the oldest cradle of agriculture across Iran and West Asia, Habibollah Mahmoudian, a specialist in prehistoric archaeology, has said.

TEHRAN – Iran’s oldest known handicrafts have been traced to its Lorestan province, according to a local official. Abbas ...