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

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 ...

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

A faint name beside a dog in an ancient Egyptian tomb has added a new name to the known list of Egyptian dogs. The name appears in the 18th Dynasty tomb of User, a scribe and steward of Thutmose I, at ...

Archaeologists uncover a 1,000-year-old fortress, bishop’s palace, and rare 14th-century clay water pipe at Posa in Germany.

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 ...

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

Roman amulets survived the rise of Christianity. Patricia Kret studied 300 of them and found how crosses, Bible verses and old habits blended.

Archaeologists studied a life-size petroglyph and the 7th-century church built around it in Miseeda, Sudan, and traced 12,000 years of human activity.