Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

Most of us have skeletons in our closets, but they can also lurk in much less familiar places. Literally.

The discovery at the Maya site of Ucanal in Guatemala “marked a public dismantling of an old regime”—a rather pivotal moment ...

A study led by Professor Dan Lawrence, of Durham University in the UK, found that across 10 millennia, more unequal ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

The road uncovered was measured to be around 13 feet wide, which is bigger than than the average 12 feet single lane in the ...

The early results from a long-awaited excavation of the quarry beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are nothing short of ...

Archaeological excavations launched in 2022 in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem have yielded significant data ...

From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a trove of artifacts from a 17th-century military camp in Germany. Some of the findings ...

Archaeologists excavating at Saqqara Necropolis found a 4,300-year-old tomb of a poorly known prince with a unique fake door, photos show. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

A new study unveils the potential reason children participated in creating prehistoric cave art. In prehistoric societies, ...