Archaeologists in Greece have uncovered the grave of an ousted noblewoman whom they are calling "The Lady with the Inverted ...

A stone carving that some scholars believe dates back more than 2,200 years and could carry major cultural significance has ignited a heated debate among history enthusiasts, as several university ...

Pity the Romans. Their sculpture is often compared unfavorably to that of the Greeks. While the work of their Attic cousins is celebrated for being high-minded and idealistic—all those ripped bodies, ...

A remarkable 2,200-year-old rock carving discovered in China's remote Qinghai province has been officially authenticated as genuine, providing unprecedented evidence of Emperor Qin Shi Huang's ...

In a quiet corner of northern Greece, archaeologists have uncovered a rare glimpse into the intellectual life of antiquity. At the royal gymnasium of Mieza, the site where Aristotle once tutored a ...

Modern Kazakhstan is built upon a foundation of different cultures, khanates, and empires across history. A routine fire patrol, operating some 200 miles northwest of the country's capital, Astana, ...

Biber Deresi basin. Credit: Göknur Karahan / CC BY 4.0 Archaeologists working near the ancient Greek city of Assos (Greek: Ἄσσος) on Turkey’s Çanakkale coast have uncovered a dense cluster of early ...

A well-preserved human skeleton that scientists recently excavated in Vietnam dates back about 12,000 years ago to the Ice Age and contains the oldest human mitochondrial DNA found in the region. It ...

Around three million years ago, ancient hominins began refining their toolmaking, using hammerstones to strike stone cores and create sharp-edged flakes. By pounding, slicing and scraping, the stone ...

Ancient human relatives moved diverse stones over substantial distances, researchers report, revealing a surprisingly high degree of forward planning 600,000 years earlier than experts previously ...