One of history’s most controversial, reviled, and yet important figures, the first conquistador, Christopher Columbus, is the ...

Studying microscopic layers of dirt dug from the Tam Pà Ling cave site in northeastern Laos has provided a team of Flinders ...

A team of Spanish scientists has reached some important conclusions about the cause of death of newborn infants who passed ...

The sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled by one of humanity's most significant ...

By Talia Ogliore/ Washington University in St. LouisArchaeological surveys led by scientists at Washington University in St.

For over three decades, the treasure hunt "On the Trail of the Golden Owl" captivated thousands of puzzle enthusiasts across ...

Shell-ring archaeological sites, “one of the most visible site types along the lower South Atlantic Coast of the United ...

We often think about our distant ancestors as primitive, equipped with the crudest of tools and a limited set of skills. But ...

German archaeological mission has unearthed the funerary chamber of a woman named "Idi”, the sole daughter of Djefai-Hapy, ...

Archaeologists performing excavations at a site known as Sinauli in the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India unearthed a ...

Haas, who lived between 1509 and 1576, is credited as the first to document ideas like multi-stage rockets, spacecraft ...

By examining ancient walrus DNA, an international research team led by Lund University in Sweden have retraced the walrus ...