Hunter-gatherers at Poverty Point may have built its massive earthworks not under the command of chiefs, but as part of a ...

Archaeologists in Georgia have uncovered an ancient tablet etched with mysterious symbols that defy any known language, ...

An image of Tutankhamun on a fragment from an ancient necklace has revealed new insights into the rituals of the elites ...

A Swedish plano-convex ingot once thought to be from the Bronze Age was revealed through chemical and isotopic testing to ...

R esearchers have made a surprising Iron Age find in the form of an ingot in Sweden, as published in the Journal of ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery beneath the ancient city of Gabii sheds new light on early Roman city planning.

When a cache of Iron Age metalwork emerged from Swedish soil, it did more than add a few glittering artifacts to museum ...

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Archaeologists excavating a ninth-century burial site in Bjugn, Norway have uncovered something unprecedented in Scandinavian archaeology: a Viking Age woman's grave featuring two scallop shells ...

Despite cultural exchange and natural disasters, this lineage—the oldest evidence for which is a collection of 8,500-year-old ...