A bronze Hwangja Hwatong found in South Korea is identified as the earliest surviving Korean gunpowder weapon.

More than 5,000 animal bones reveal how an Iron Age household in Spain used livestock, hunted deer, and held special feasts.

Twenty Anglo-Saxon coins found near the Vatican reveal trade, craftwork, and a thriving English community in early medieval ...

A Roman temple, smithy and later Alamanni finds reveal new details about life around Kapersburg fort in Germany.

A study of the Dendra tomb shows how Early Mycenaean mourners arranged bodies, metals and grave goods into carefully planned ...

For now, genetic evidence places the diversification of the ancestors of today’s Indigenous Americans no earlier than about ...

Volunteers on Lismore found Lios Mòr, a sixth century Scottish monastery known only from legend, with burials, buildings, and ...

Ancient DNA shows how inbreeding, hunting and habitat loss wiped out Scandinavia's aurochs, the wild ancestors of modern cattle.

A structural study shows a 2,800-year-old palace in Ethiopia had walls strong enough to support far more floors than expected ...

Archaeologists found 10,500-year-old worked wood beneath Germany’s Arendsee, offering new evidence of Mesolithic lakeside ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 2,000-year-old Sarmatian warrior grave with a ring-pommel dagger on Ukraine's Arabatska Spit. See ...

Study of 13,000-year-old spear points shows how Clovis and Cumberland groups managed stone resources in an unfamiliar ...