Archaeological breakthrough at Canterbury reveals Homo heidelbergensis survived the brutal Anglian glaciation, rewriting assumptions about early human resilience and adaptation in prehistoric Europe.A ...

This is partly because early Slavic communities left behind rather little for archaeologists to find: they practiced cremation, built simple houses, and produced plain, undecorated pottery. Perhaps ...

International research team uncovers oldest evidence of indigo dye processing on paleolithic stone tools from a Georgian cave, revolutionizing understanding of early human plant use.A latest discovery ...

The Sumerian creation myth can be found on a tablet in Nippur, an ancient Mesopotamian city founded in approximately 5000 BC. The creation of Earth ( Enuma Elish) according to the Sumerian tablets ...

Rakhmat rock shelter have unearthed what could be the world's oldest arrowheads, dating back an astonishing 80,000 years.

The Sumerian King List begins with the very origin of kingship, which is seen as a divine institution: “the kingship had descended from heaven.” The rulers in the earliest dynasties are represented as ...

The Quimbaya or Tolima artifacts are a set of gold figurines found in Colombia and dated to between 300 and 1000 AD. Measuring approximately 2 to 3 inches (5 to 7.5cm) in length, there are over 100 of ...

Staff Writer. Vichama, ciudad agropesquera de hace 3 800 años, revela nuevos mensajes sobre el agua, la vida y los efectos del cambio climático. Available at: ...

This latest book to add to this history is The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman, which addresses both themes of English unification and viking politics. It ...

In 1900, potato-harvesting children first found three bronze daggers in the area, with only one surviving today in the Görlitz Museum after the others disappeared during World War II. A socketed axe ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient Greek city of Aigai in western Turkey have uncovered a remarkable temple dedicated to Demeter, goddess of agriculture and fertility, containing nearly 1,000 ...

An international research team has identified the world's earliest known evidence of Neanderthal interbreeding with modern humans in a 140,000-year-old child's skeleton discovered in Israel's Skhul Ca ...