Archaeologists in Turkey discovered over 60 ancient tombs in Colossae, the biblical city mentioned in St. Paul's famous New ...

An analysis of bones from ancient people who once lived in Colombia has discovered DNA that does not directly connect them to ...

DNA recovered from 1,000-year-old dried feces indicates that intestinal infections from pinworm or Shingella may have plagued ...

Missouri State University archaeologists Daniel Pierce and Christopher Bodine are heading to Brazil to study ancient Amazonian geoglyphs that may reveal an unknown civilization.

When archaeologists study how ancient civilizations traveled, they can use evidence like wagons and stables and roads to understand how goods and people moved on land. But when they want to learn ...

Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

The ancient Athenian writer Isocrates (436–338 BC) once commented: "Many cities judge those who excel in the athletic contests to be worthy of greater rewards than those who, by painstaking thought ...

The rock art was used to mark the location of water sources in an illustration of how ancient people tackled some of Earth’s most inhospitable environs.

The mountain’s name means “the place where exchanges/trades/barters are made to produce/manipulate water,” and surveys conducted in the 1960s of the mountain’s summit found temple platforms, mounds ...

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