Bernardo Arriaza of the University of Tarapacá thinks that the Chinchorro people may have developed the practice of artificial mummification as a response to grief brought about by high infant ...

According to an Ahram Online report, excavations at connected sites in northern Egypt’s western Nile Delta have uncovered an industrial area at Kom Wasit that was in use as early as the fifth century ...

According to a statement released by Texas Tech University, a team of archaeologists from Texas Tech University and the Texas ...

Two kilns have been unearthed at a well-preserved pottery workshop within the Dinka Settlement Complex in northern Iraq, according to a statement released by the University of Tübingen. The workshop ...

According to a statement released by Goethe University Frankfurt, a building complex at the Gird-î Kazhaw site in northern Iraq has been identified as a Christian church and possible monastery by ...

The Anadolu Agency reports that excavations at Syedra, a 3,000-year-old city site on Turkey’s southern coastline, suggest it ...

GUARDBRIDGE, SCOTLAND— The Herald Scotland reports that prior to the construction of a new housing development in Guardbridge, Fife, archaeological excavations uncovered traces of some 10,000 years of ...

A sculpture known as the Hell Mouth is one of several dozen fantastical creations dating to the sixteenth century that line the paths of a park called the Sacro Bosco, or Sacred Wood, near the central ...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Oxford University analyzed sediments from third-century a.d. […] ...

Facial tattoos have been found on the mummified remains of children who lived in Nubia some 1,400 years ago, when ...

USAK, TURKEY— The Anadolu Agency reports that a stadium has been uncovered in western Turkey’s ancient site of Blaundos, a naturally fortified hilltop city founded as a garrison for Macedonian ...

A 1904 photograph shows the excavation of a Viking ship burial in Oseberg, Norway. The 71-foot-long vessel dating to A.D. 834 contained the remains of two women and an abundance of extraordinary grave ...