This rare feature, found only in North Holland, has left archaeologists baffled as to why someone would choose such a morbid material.

The unique armor is thought to have belonged to a man who ruled as emperor for just 27 days.

From shipwrecks to space stations, many investigations into the past bore fruit this year.

The shocking violence was likely an attempt to dehumanize and "other" the enemy, according to archaeologists.

The rare artifacts date back to around 500 BCE—and the detectorist's second go was somehow just as fortuitous.

Ancient genomes reveal a narrow time window for Neanderthal and human interbreeding, raising new questions about their shared history.

A cave in Galilee hints at prehistoric ritual gatherings in a cave that holds evidence of Neanderthal and human occupation.

Researchers suggest that when Roman legions were at the empire's remote northern frontiers, they relied on local craftspeople for equipment repairs.

The archaeological site could shed light on the region's history, with its oldest human settlement potentially dating back 14,000 years.

The tablet could predate the earliest known evidence of writing in the Caucasus region by over a thousand years, hinting at a potentially lost script.

Her mother thought it was just a stone, but Dafna Filshteiner insisted there was something special about it.

Bones from the turn of the Holocene indicate that humans were feeding canines—including wolves and coyotes—fish over 10,000 years ago,

Scientists have determined that the diet of a Clovis woman who lived in North America 13,000 years ago included a substantial portion of mammoth and other large game.

Researchers in Poland have hypothesized that warriors used spoon-like artifacts to administer drugs during Roman-period wartime.

A team of Chinese scientists has confirmed the presence of the anthrax-causing bacteria at the site of an infamous Second World War laboratory.

The near-2,000-year-old cache included swords and chainmail, and offers a unique window into the Nordic community that lived there.

A 1.5-million-year-old lakebed from Kenya shows two ancient human relatives cohabitating an environment, shaking up our ancestors' story.

An international team of researchers analyzed organic residues in ceramic trays used by Neolithic people in the Near East to bake bread and focaccia.

The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new fossil discovery, technology, and scientific techniques.

Ice Age humans in what is now Wyoming used bones from hares, bobcats, and mountain lions to craft sewing needles, new research suggests.