In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

A study led by Professor Dan Lawrence, of Durham University in the UK, found that across 10 millennia, more unequal ...

A newly discovered settlement in the north-western Nile delta was built by the Egyptian New Kingdom perhaps 3500 years ago ...

The artifacts discovered in a cave—which include dart tips, a boomerang and a spear-throwing tool—were dated to as far back ...

Depicted by the statue is the Buddha Amitābha, a prominent figure in Mahayana Buddhism.

Tikal is a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of Guatemala—far flung from Mexico’s ancient city of Teotihuacan. The ...

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

Remains of what may be the ancient capital city of the Kingdom of Lyncestis have been found in North Macedonia.

We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...

Previously, the use of ivory was thought to date back about 120,000 years. But a new study, published in the International ...

A new study unveils the potential reason children participated in creating prehistoric cave art. In prehistoric societies, ...

Archaeologists in Vienna, Austria, uncovered a significant find: a Roman mass grave from the first century A.D., located ...