Having weathered nearly 1,500 years of time and exposure, the remains of Roman-Byzantine villages in Syria have been the ...

Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age ...

Archaeologists have translated Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets from 720 B.C.E. detailing rare royal rituals and king lists, while Ice Age stone tools from China show advanced craftsmanship by an ...

Researchers have deciphered a collection of cuneiform writing from the earliest civilizations of the Near East. The analysis ...

Scientists have revealed a precocious nanotech discovery involving an ancient Roman artifact that predates the modern ...

A recent archaeological study has identified the earliest lithic heat treatment of chert in the world. Discovered in ...

A long-neglected fossil seems to show the evolutionary leap that let the ancestors of today’s many-legged arthropods crawl ...