New evidence from Brazil reveals organized whale hunting began thousands of years earlier than previously believed, ...

Microscopic feathers provide clearest evidence yet of ceremonial clothing used in shamanic burial rituals in prehistoric ...

Swedish archaeologists have uncovered a 5,000-year-old dog burial in what used to be a Stone Age fishing lake.

A tiny bird figurine discovered in a refuse heap in the Henan province of China is changing what historians thought they knew ...

To support their findings, the researchers also analysed arrows collected in the 1770s by Swedish naturalist Carl Peter ...

The beliefs of women and children who lived in the classical world can be difficult to access. Much of the work women traditionally did left relatively little evidence behind—loom weights and cooking ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a grand exposition of sacred Piprahwa relics, including bone fragments believed ...

We went into the river searching for Native American arrowheads and relics. Then we uncovered something strange that did not match anything else we were finding. This discovery caught us completely ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

A street food vendor has been arrested in Ghaziabad’s Loni after a woman alleged that she was abused and threatened when she confronted the seller on finding a bone in the vegetable biryani she had ...

NEW DELHI: The Army has deployed specialised troops to flush out terrorists in the Jammu region following the onset of 'Chillai Kalan' -- the harshest phase of the Union territory's winter spanning ...

Ca. 2300–2000 b.c. The head likely depicts a Mesopotamian ruler and is one of the earliest known life-size lost-wax metal sculptures to survive. It had been thought that the head was virtually solid, ...