Stone Age humans had unexpectedly advanced medical knowledge, new discovery suggests

Buried in a shallow grave deep within a remote Indonesian cave, archaeologists have found the bones…

Severe drought dries up river revealing 113 million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Texas park

Drought in Texas has dried up a river flowing through Dinosaur Valley State Park, exposing tracks…

Dinosaur teeth from Diamantinasaurus unearthed in outback Queensland

A “really unusual” discovery of dinosaur teeth in outback Queensland has changed what researchers know about how…

Kangaroo-bone nose piercing is oldest bone jewellery ever found

Ancient jewellery tells stories of the complicated behaviours of our ancestors, and recently discovered septum accessory…

The Bronze Age city in Iraq gifted to archeology by drought

Extreme drought in Iraq have given German and Kurdish archaeologists the unique chance to examine an…

Controversial rock art may depict extinct giants of the ice age

More than 12,000 years ago, South America was teeming with an astonishing array of ice age…

Artifacts reveal secrets of Stonehenge

The distinctive silhouette of Stonehenge in the flat landscape of Salisbury plain in southwest England is…

DNA reveals unexpected origins of enigmatic mummies buried in a Chinese desert

Since their discovery, the ancestry of hundreds of mummified bodies buried in boats in an inhospitable…

Can Skeletons Have a Racial Identity?

A growing number of forensic researchers are questioning how the field interprets the geographic ancestry of…

Fossilized footprints show humans made it to North America much earlier than first thought

North and South America were the last continents to be settled by humans, but exactly when…