Ancient Maya burials, once thought to show human sacrifice, may instead reflect ancestral ties, according to a theory by Dr.

Known as the Lost City of Khambhat, this ancient settlement sank 9,500 years ago. Discovered in 2000, it challenges our understanding of early human history ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the purpose of a 1,500-year-old bucket at Sutton Hoo, revealing that it was used as a cremation vessel for an important Anglo-Saxon figure.

UCC graduate, Glenn Gibney, tells Sarah Horgan about his work over the last decade to piece together the stories of people's lives from centuries ago through the analysis of their bones ...

They've extracted fragments of enamel proteins from the teeth of fossils of the species Paranthropus robustus and used them ...

Learn more about the discovery of the oldest whale bone tools made by ancient coastal hunter-gatherer groups.

The skull found by workers at San Fernando, Catamarca province has a structure that differs markedly from that of a ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications, a team of researchers has uncovered the earliest known evidence ...

The more than 100 ha wide reclamation area was meticulously searched on hands and knees [by Berghuis], collecting vertebrate remains visible to the naked eye, Harold Berghuis and co-workers explained ...

A quiet yet symbolically significant gathering took place on May 17 at the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate in Cairo.

With landmark Irish horror film The Outcasts now available on BFI Player, we choose 10 more tales of fear and folklore from the Emerald Isle.

A team of scientists analyzed the DNA of human remains approximately 6,000 years old found in Colombia. The results have been published in the journal Science Advances and show that human groups ...