Archaeology

Silk—often treated as the star of the ancient “Silk Road”—may have started traveling much earlier than historians assumed. New archaeological...

For decades, the weapons found in the tombs of ancient Egyptian princesses have sparked debate: were they mere symbols of...

Precolonial societies in Brazil’s Cerrado—a vast tropical savanna—have long posed a puzzle: did people survive mainly through mobile hunting and...

A new study from Tel Aviv University revisits a long-standing puzzle at the heart of the Dead Sea Scrolls: did...

New genetic research from Stockholm University is rewriting our understanding of medieval burial practices and familial relationships. By analyzing ancient...

A groundbreaking ancient DNA study has unveiled compelling evidence that political power among Scythian elites during the Iron Age was...

In a groundbreaking development poised to transform the way natural history museums and research institutions prepare their skeletal specimens, scientists...

There are currently 15 well-documented Late Pleistocene localities in North America in which Clovis points are found associated with proboscidean...

In a groundbreaking advancement that promises to reshape our approach to prehistoric archaeology, scientists have, for the first time, successfully...

In a groundbreaking advancement in the study of late Neandertals, a multinational consortium of geneticists and archaeologists has released the...