archeology
In fact, the maximum human lifespan has barely changed since we arrived.
Scientists have found evidence of hot springs near sites where ancient hominids settled, long before the control of fire.
The major temples seem much more interesting than what also appears on the landscape: apparently random mounds of earth.
Most of Stonehenge's megaliths, called sarens, came from West Woods, Wiltshire.
Archaeologists suggest this may have been the Americas' "oldest hotel."
The discovery pushes back humanity's history with domestication.
While building a new airport, construction crews uncover a gigantic collection of ancient bones.
Many of the bathrooms uncovered at Pompeii and elsewhere were communal.
Researchers confirmed that the mummy known as Takabuti died from a stab wound to the back.
The beads are made from red-deer teeth, sourced from 63 individual deer.
New research suggests that a healthy supply of locally-sourced beer helped maintain the unity of the widespread Wari civilization for about 500 years.
Here are 7 often-overlooked World Heritage Sites, each with its own history.
There are reasons you look the way you do.
A long-ridiculed theory about humankind's early leap of consciousness is revived.
The artifact will be opened on Sunday, for the first time in millennia, at an undisclosed location in Egypt.
They didn't know it, but the rituals of Iron Age Scandinavians turned their iron into steel.
Archeologists had been doubtful since no such ship had ever been found.
Did a poorly understood ancient civilization somersault over charging bulls?
Lasers solve the mystery of the missing quill.
Hi-tech imaging again reveals a hidden chapter of human history.
They're positioned as they are for a good reason.
The Nazis actively searched for Atlantis, seeing it as important to their mythology.
Dozens of mummified cats were dug up this week. This isn't as shocking as you might think.