By Peter Edwell for The Conversation Standing in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome , hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo voices from 1,800 years ago. Today, the...
An ancient society near the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in modern-day Bolivia was once one of the continent's most powerful civilizations. Known as Tiwanaku , the ancient society is widely...
Most Western powers, particularly in western Europe , have time and again been forced to confront their grisly colonial pasts – raping, pillaging, looting, was a general feature of this period. In a...
In a groundbreaking discovery that reshapes our understanding of Mediterranean prehistory, archaeologists uncovered the earliest and largest known agricultural complex in Africa outside the Nile...
One of the greatest mysteries in Japanese archaeology is the resting place of Queen Himiko. The first named person in all of Japanese history, she is thought to have lived between 170 and 248 AD...
The iconic image of the shattered statues of Queen Hatshepsut has long been interpreted as evidence of political vengeance - an aggressive attempt by her successor, Thutmose III, to erase her memory...
New research has cast doubts over suggestions an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland more than 5,000 years ago. Researchers examined the evidence from burials of...
A rare and remarkable discovery at the sprawling Copper Age megasite of Valencina in southwestern Spain is reshaping our understanding of prehistoric Iberian society and its relationship with the sea...
A breathtaking new analysis of an ancient iron spear unearthed on Okinoshima - Japan's revered "Island of the Gods"- has revealed East Asia's earliest known example of a gold-inlaid weapon. This...
The Retjenu was one of the most important peoples of ancient Canaan. What make them fascinating are their mysterious origins, their connection with the Hyksos as well as their strange but intimate...
Hidden under the urban hubbub of Lima's Puente Piedra area, workers laying out Peru's network of natural gas pipelines have inadvertently made an astonishing archaeological discovery: the mummified...
Deep in the peaceful countryside along Poland 's Baltic shore, where the Parsęta River flows toward the ocean, a farmer unearthed a find that would rewrite northern Europe's prehistory. In the sandy...
The largest ever collections of a painted Roman wall plaster have been unearthed in London’s Southwark area, pieced together after 1,800 odd years from amongst the remains of an early Roman building...
By Sara Watson for The Conversation The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today’s world. In the northern hemisphere, ice sheets up to 8 kilometres...
A 1,000-year-old Viking burial site, likely belonging to a noble family attached to the court of King Harald Bluetooth himself, has been uncovered in a small Danish village. The 10th century site,...
For over a decade, the Denisovans were anthropology's most mysterious cousins — a ghost line whose existence was known almost solely from ancient DNA , a child's pinky bone, and a rumor of genes that...
For almost 300,000 years, humans were African. But whereas our previous human cousins had already made their way into Eurasia, our own species was more than 200,000 years confined to the mother...
Following over two decades of research, scientists at the Australian National Maritime Museum have asserted in no uncertain terms that they've located one of the most famous ships of maritime history...
A sequence of footprints hidden deep within a long-dried paleo‑lake bed were discovered in 2021 by archaeologists, pushing back the purported arrival of early North American settlers between 23,000...
The reign of Mary I, often dubbed "Bloody Mary," was a tumultuous chapter in English history, marked by religious persecution, political intrigue, and a fierce struggle for the throne. Her ascension...
In the shadowy forests near Wawa, Northern Ontario, a centuries-old mystery has emerged from the earth - literally. In 2018, toppled tree revealed an astonishing archaeological find: a Nordic...
Travel back 20,000 years into the last Ice Age, to a time when the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains were treeless and the ridgelines and mountain peaks laden in snow and ice. At an elevation of 1,...
An astonishing medieval sword, unearthed from a riverbed in the Netherlands, is now capturing the imagination of archaeologists and museum goers alike. Dubbed the ‘Sword of Linschoten’, this nearly 1...
Archaeologists excavating the ancient Roman fort of Magna, near Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, England, have uncovered a remarkable personal artifact: a nearly complete Roman leather shoe...
