Marianne Ham Eriksen/The ConversationPregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers – and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given ...

Beneath the ancient Maya city of Dos Pilas in northern Guatemala, archaeologists recently made a grim discovery that reveals the lengths the Maya would go to in order to curry the favor of the gods at ...

A team of archaeologists and scientists led by Karen Hardy, Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, has discovered evidence for one of the earliest human populations yet kno ...

Archaeologists in Hungary uncovered a treasure trove of valuable metal artifacts during excavations at a site known as Somló ...

The most famous of all the predatory dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex, likely evolved in a different part of the world than its ...

A new study of ancient and modern societies shows that human populations need at least 2.7 children per woman – a much higher ...

Long before modern humans arrived in Europe, early members of the human family tree were engineering wooden spears to hunt prey along the shores of an ancient lake in central Germany.

During the excavations the archaeologists found a trench, 6.6 feet (two meters) deep, that surrounded the fortress (it would ...

Archaeologists working in the Caucasus Mountains have uncovered a surprising piece of evidence that reshapes our ...

Konstantine Panegyres/The ConversationIt’s almost impossible to go a day without seeing or hearing about sports.

A recent DNA analysis has confirmed what the Picuris Pueblo people of northern New Mexico have long claimed was passed down ...

When Mount Vesuvius violently erupted on the morning of August 24, AD 79, the residents of Pompeii were caught off guard.