A mosaic adorning the entrance to a fifth-century church in Turkey ’s ancient city of Olympus is both just the tip of the ...

Ancient hunter-gatherers built monumental mounds at Kaillachuro in Peru without kings, rewriting history of "monumental ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of Te K'ab Chaak, the first known ruler of Caracol, an ancient Maya city in present-day Belize.

More than 30 years ago, researcher Boris Sket found the carcasses of tailless whip scorpions on the limestone of a monastery on Cyprus near a natural spring, but didn’t collect any live animals and ...

Archaeologists from @UHouston have uncovered the tomb of Te K’ab Chaak — Caracol’s first ruler and dynastic founder. It’s the ...

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered a set of iron weights shaped like ancient Greek letters, in the ruins of the Greco-Roman ...

Archaeologists uncovered an ancient Byzantine mosaic in Dara, revealing the Greek-influenced city's military and religious ...

If you've ever looked at a world map, you might notice a big, blue patch nestled between Europe, Asia, and Africa. That’s the Mediterranean Sea—a shimmering str ...

Genetic studies point to female-centered living arrangements in Neolithic Çatalhöyük. Yet, power may not have rested solely ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

Scientists have sequenced the oldest known DNA from ancient Egypt. It belonged to a potter who lived 4,500 years ago. This ...