Professor of archaeology at the University of São Paulo, challenged longstanding academic assumptions in a virtual lecture.

The looters had plans to plunder an ancient cave workshop from the Second Temple Period on Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus.

Skateholm’s importance is not only that it is large, but that it preserves a long span of hunter-gatherer life and death. The Swedish History Museum notes the area around the lagoon was used for ...

Genghis Khan, born Temüjin, forged the largest contiguous land empire in history in the 13th century, an empire that stretched from the Pacific Ocean to Eastern Europe. His military campaigns were ...

A new exhibition at Southern University at New Orleans' Museum of Art (SUNOMA) is bringing the splendor of ancient Egypt into ...

John Cusack to promote his graphic novel Momo, created with Ignacio Noé and Damian Hirst on late night talk shows this summer ...

An archaeologist carries out restoration work at the Youyi Road tomb cluster. Photo: Courtesy of Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology ...

In this 9th-century BCE mass grave, archaeologists were stunned to find the remains of 77 people, almost all of them women ...

Far fewer people alive today are related to Genghis Khan than is commonly believed, according to a new study that upends the popular myth that one in 200 modern men are descendants of the Mongol ...

Neanderthal men were short, stocky and powerful - and our female ancestors appeared to fancy them, according to a new study. ...

Long before modern hospitals and surgical science, ancient Sri Lanka developed one of the world’s most advanced medical systems. This documentary explores the Mihintale Hospital Complex, believed to ...