Why so many Roman coin hoards end up being buried and never found has baffled archaeologists for decades. A major new study has shown that the non-recovery of these hoarded treasures was caused by ...

In Western Christianity, the feast of Epiphany, also known as Three Kings’ Day, is celebrated annually on the 6th January to commemorate the visit of the Magi, wise men, or kings from the East to the ...

Archaeologists in the Dutch city of Nijmegen have made an extraordinary discovery: the largest Roman bathhouse complex ever found in the Netherlands. Unearthed in the Waalfront district, an area ...

Then advances in ancient DNA revealed a story of this child, buried over ten thousand years ago. It was a story far greater than anyone could have guessed. The child known to archaeologists as the ...

Analysis of ancient proteins extracted from the fossilized teeth of Homo naledi has revealed a startling new twist in the ongoing mystery of South Africa’s Rising Star cave system. Researchers have ...

If you spend enough time looking at the lower levels of 19th-century buildings in any major Western city, you will eventually notice something strange. The windows of the ground floor often sit below ...

A remarkably preserved bronze sword dating back around 2,700 years has been unearthed in a forest near Gdańsk, Poland. The find offers archaeologists a rare opportunity to investigate how prestigious ...

“Before the last glacial period, Neanderthals had diverse maternal lineages. As ice sheets advanced and habitable territory shrank, survivors appear to have concentrated in a climate refugium in ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an extraordinary artifact during their excavation of the ancient Tartessian settlement of Casas del Turuñuelo in Guareña, Spain. The artifact - an incredibly rare ...

Archaeologists examining an approximately 6,200-year-old skull uncovered at a Copper Age site identified a series of injuries on the skull matching to a young adult male. The wounds were most ...

However, within the rural landscapes of Anatolia, the Jinn are traditionally understood as a parallel society, an invisible populace that shares the same geography, utilizes the same natural resources ...