A vast scarred landscape in Iraq may expose the buried labor behind one of the medieval world’s most overlooked uprisings.

For more than a thousand years, the dingo’s howl echoed across the Australian landscape, a common sound for Indigenous peoples. Far from being just wild animals, dingoes became hunting partners, camp ...

The Trump administration is bent on erasing America’s rich Indigenous history from signage at our National Parks and museums.

Archaeology offers something increasingly rare in combating global water crisis—a long-term perspective on how human ...

Palestinians say expropriation of religious site is further exploitation of archaeology and religion to target Palestinian ...

A forgotten laser scan dataset has unveiled Valeriana, a vast ancient Maya city in Mexico, previously hidden from ...

A set of burned human bones unearthed in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift may hold the oldest known evidence of cremation, pushing a ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a pre-Roman necropolis in Vasto, Italy, revealing 2,300-year-old burials of ancient Italic ...

This sprawling ancient metropolis in the jungle of Ecuador has revealed a unique form of urbanism. The BBC visits the site for the story of this mysterious civilisation.

Ancient stones rarely behave like still objects in Egypt. At the Karnak temples in Luxor, walls and gateways tend to reappear in unexpected forms, as if the past has been repeatedly folded and ...

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Hidden deep within the sandstone plateaus of Tassili n'Ajjer, the central Sahara Desert holds one of humanity’s oldest surviving art galleries. Across cliffs, caves, and rock shelters, prehistoric ...