Investigating questions of kinship, archaeologists discovered that treating non-blood relatives as family goes back to the ...

Before life as we know it began, early humans walked the Earth at the same time as woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers. Through several prehistoric eras they lived, hunted and evolved, leaving ...

Once again, it has been great year for archeology and historical research. Groundbreaking discoveries were made all over the globe, from Egypt’s Valley of the Kings and the ruins of Pompeii to the ...

In school, history often comes packaged in tidy chapters and predictable timelines, but let’s be honest, real history is anything but neat. It’s messy, dramatic, filled with surprises, and often way ...

When it comes to ancient Egypt, archaeologists never know what they might find – and visitors are bound to be dazzled by the displays in the recently opened Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. In recent ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

About 2,000 years ago, life in the Roman town of Pompeii—located in modern-day Italy—looked a lot like life anywhere else. However, on the morning of August 24, 79 C.E., the nearby Mount Vesuvius ...

Raw chunks of iron and other artifacts recovered from an ancient shipwreck are challenging archaeologists’ understanding of trade and war in the Middle East 2,600 years ago.