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 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 ...

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 Texas Tech University, a team of archaeologists from Texas Tech University and the Texas ...

A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.

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

The gypsum dunes of White Sands National Park in New Mexico's Tularosa Basin are adjacent to the site of a dry ancient lakebed where scientists have discovered human and animal trackways dating to ...

Assyrian cuneiform tablet from Kanesh(Courtesy of the Yale Babylonian Collection/Photography by Alberto Urcia/Text NBC 1907) Harvard University Assyriologist Gojko Barjamovic is currently ...

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

In May 1562, Diego de Landa, the highest-ranking Catholic authority in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, received word that a large number of idols, along with human bones and deer meat, had been discovered ...

The peaks of the Andes rise over Chile’s Aysén region in Patagonia, the southern quarter of South America and one of the last places on Earth to be settled by humans.(Courtesy Raven Garvey) (Ken ...