In May 1562, Diego de Landa, the highest-ranking Catholic authority in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, received word that a large number of idols, along with human bones and deer meat, had been discovered ...

New DNA analysis of the remains of a Roman-era individual known as Beachy Head Woman indicates that she came from ...

Facial tattoos have been found on the mummified remains of children who lived in Nubia some 1,400 years ago, when ...

Homo erectus is thought to have migrated out of Africa some 1.8 million years ago. Did other species migrate out of Africa as well at this time? The Dmanisi skulls differ from Homo erectus, do not all ...

ArtNet News reports that excavators working in the ancient Roman town of Oplontis, three miles west of Pompeii, have ...

A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.

ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT—Built in the third century b.c., the Lighthouse of Alexandria was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Reaching a height of 330 feet, it was one of the world’s tallest ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

WARNEMÜNDE, GERMANY— The Guardian reports that a section of wall stretching for nearly one-half mile was found in the Bay of Mecklenburg, off the coast of Germany, during a survey conducted with a ...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Oxford University analyzed sediments from third-century a.d. […] ...

By looking at mother-infant experiences together, we can observe the long-lasting impact urbanization has on the health of ...

BASRA, IRAQ—The Shatt al-Arab floodplain outside of Basra is marked with thousands of manmade earthen ridges and canals. Archaeologists have long suspected that these may have been part of an ancient ...