Archaeology continues to uncover discoveries that reshape our understanding of the ancient world. From hidden cities and royal tombs to inscriptions, temples, and remarkably preserved artifacts, new ...

For centuries, the vanished Inca fortress of Ancocagua existed only in lore. Now, at a mountaintop site in Peru, researchers ...

Stone tools uncovered at the Lingjing archaeological site in central China have been dated to 146,000 years ago, or about ...

A hole drilled into a 60,000-year-old molar suggests that Neanderthals practiced complex dental care long before modern ...

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

We hardly give them a second thought, but everyday objects like bags and backpacks belong to a long technological tradition that may stretch back hundreds of thousands of years.

The Toba supereruption 74,000 years ago was so massive it may have plunged Earth into years of darkness and cold, leading some scientists to believe humanity nearly went extinct. Yet archaeological ...

An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands ...

A 59,000-year-old Neandertal molar unearthed in Siberia was drilled with a stone tool – the earliest evidence of primitive ...

Called bernwoodite, it’s one of two new minerals Korolev and his adviser at the AMNH, Kate Kiseeva, and their colleagues ...