The finding may allow archaeologists to determine whether a woman was pregnant or had recently given birth at the time of her death.

Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.

Imagine digging into a quiet village field and finding signs of a whole city that existed more than 2,000 years ago. That’s what happened in Keeladi — a small village near Madurai that is now ...

The Yup’ik community was spared the widespread devastation wrought by the remnants of Typhoon Halong on its neighbors further ...

At the northern end of Hadrian’s Wall, volunteers and archaeology students uncovered pottery, metalwork, soldiers’ tools, and ...

“The last few years have seen vital signs breaking their records by extraordinary margins, like surface temperature, ocean ...

While more evidence is needed to link paleo-Americans to Japan, it is possible that they came by boat instead of crossing the ...

Trepanation is the first neurosurgical procedure humans ever performed, and it has been practiced across times and cultures, experts said.

The 1-inch pottery fragment, which is part of a seal that was used to authenticate official documents, was reportedly found ...

Survival International has just published a 300-page report called Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples: at the Edge of Survival, ...

In early November 1927, the front pages of newspapers all over France featured photographs not of the usual politicians, ...