Discoveries like this really trigger interesting questions in terms of reviewing, revising, and then coming up with new hypotheses as to what the key differences were between the main hominin groups,” ...

Live Science reports that two 2,400-year-old tombs have been uncovered in the Parco delle Acacie near Via Pietralata in northeastern Rome. One tomb contained a stone sarcophagus and three cremation ...

According to a statement released by the University of York, an excavation in northern England near the site of Skipsea Castle, built by the Normans around A.D. 1086 on an Iron Age mound, has ...

An array of luxurious artifacts was discovered in the tomb of Feng Sufu, a Northern Yan Dynasty (a.d. 407–436) general, near the city of Beipiao in northeastern China. These include (clockwise from ...

Detail of engravings on limestone block from Švédův stůl Cave PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC—According to a Radio Prague ...

Reuters reports that Louis Autin and Eloïse Letellier-Taillefer of Sorbonne University and Marie-Adeline Le […] ...

According to a Herald Wales report, a Roman villa complex was found in southwestern Wales during a survey with ...

Greece, fifth century b.c. To accommodate the sculpture, Phidias raised the height of the cella. He also installed a large rectangular pool filled with olive oil in front of the statue. Since the ...

According to a statement released by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, people living some 5,000 years ago in the ...

According to an IFL Science report, a medieval shipwreck has been discovered in the strait between Denmark and Sweden by a ...

A 16-story pyramid towers over the rainforest that covers the remains of the ancient Maya city of Calakmul in Mexico. Calakmul was the capital city of the Kaanul, or Snake, Dynasty from the ...

A 65-foot-tall mudbrick temple known as the Deffufa was constructed some 4,000 years ago as the spiritual center of the ancient Nubian capital of Kerma in northern Sudan. As the Nile slices through ...