Excavations at a necropolis outside of Liternum, near modern-day Naples, have found two ornate funerary enclosures.

The area of modern-day Turkey during the Bronze Age was understood to be a “small-scale, egalitarian setting,” but new analysis of 5,000-year-old burials shed doubt on this conclusion — and raise more ...

Homo naledi, an extinct relative of modern humans whose brain was one-third the size of ours, buried their dead and engraved ...