When a roughly 1,500-year-old sword is described as still being in the “top echelons of swords,” you know that’s a pretty ...

New Tel Aviv University research suggests prehistoric humans in Israel didn't create cave paintings because large animals had ...

Around 6,000 years ago, a group known as the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture developed egalitarian settlements north of the Black ...

Researchers developed a more precise method of understanding ancestry from ancient DNA and used it to identify previously ...

Documenting migrations by analysing changes in DNA has proven difficult due to the presence of historical groups of genetically similar people. For the latest study, however, researchers employed a ...

We've picked out what we think are the 30 most compelling archaeological discoveries ever found in Europe. Click through this gallery to discover Europe’s most remarkable archaeological finds ...

The discovery of a well-preserved sixth century sword by University of Central Lancashire archaeologists will feature on the ...

Viking raiders who invaded Britain may have actually been returning to their ancestral homeland, groundbreaking new DNA ...

In a recent paper published in the Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, researchers suggest that prehistoric humans in the Levant did not create cave paintings because the primary subjects of ...

New research offers an explanation for why the practice prevalent in prehistoric Western Europe didn't occur in the Eastern Mediterranean.

More archeological excavation is needed to clarify exactly what this pit was used for. “Roman society was full of superstition, something experienced on a daily basis,” the Norton Disney History and ...