There is increasing evidence to suggest that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary roots and was not exclusive to modern humans.
The discovery of an 11,000-year-old village in Saskatchewan could rewrite Indigenous history in central Canada.
In several graves, ancient curse tablets known as defixio have been found, calling upon gods to punish various wrongdoers, ...
Archaeologists have begun revealing the secrets of a 15th-century royal warship that allegedly sank following an explosion in ...
New genetic evidence traces the roots of English, Sanskrit, and hundreds of other languages to a group of hunter-gatherers in ...
Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...
Archaeologists have discovered some of the earliest-known stone fragments containing Germanic letter inscriptions at a grave ...
Archaeologists in England are currently puzzling over a 2,000-year-old comb that was carved from the back of a human skull.
Deep in the Colombian Amazon region of Serrania De La Lindosa, a roughly 12-mile stretch of rock is covered in a vast ...
Piecing together fragments of the world's earliest known rune stone shows they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle and may have ...
By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere, conquering land across three continents ...