The discovery’s highlight was a 247-pound cannon from the Ming dynasty, but archaeologists also found remains of crops and ...

New evidence in England suggests that Neanderthals lit and controlled fires long before the first recorded use of controlled ...

Pompeii Archeological Park site map, with showing where the ancient building site is located, with colour coded piles of raw construction materials (right): purple: debris; green: piles of dry ...

When researchers first saw the ghostly outline of an ancient hull glowing on their screens, they were looking at a ship so intact that its age seemed almost impossible. The vessel lay far beyond the ...

Archaeologists have identified a roughly 13-kilometer section of the ruins of Qinzhidao, a military road built in the Qin Dynasty (221 BC-207 BC), in northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

Qin-era carved stone proven authentic through advanced analysis, revealing ancient Kunlun mission and inspiring new preservation efforts.

The expression of symbolic behavior, such as drawing, dates back to Paleolithic societies. Alongside modern humans (Homo ...

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

Are people willing to believe in AI because it taps into myths that are deeply ingrained in their imaginations?

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering ...

To boost our understanding of a little-known civilization that thrived more than 3,000 years ago, scientists have built an ...