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.

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 ...

Podcast: History Fuzz: Episode 04: Dr. Kenneth Brophy. Scotland Pt 1. Neolithic astronomy and Glasgow's lost alignments In this engaging episode, we delve into the world of Neolithic and early Bronze ...

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 ...

Archaeologists and conservators working at the Moche site of Pañamarca in the Nepeña Valley of north-coastal Peru have ...