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In the rolling hills of central Italy, about 43 miles northwest of Rome, a team of archaeologists led by Baylor University's ...

Discovery Channel’s popular show “Expedition Unknown” was on site to document the discovery of 12 human skeletons and ...

Jia Xiaobing, an archaeologist with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, says the latest studies on the Hongshan culture's ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the last 50 years – from secret Maya pyramids and fascinating fossils to ...

Humans have been modifying their skull shapes since prehistory, but the discovery of a cube-shaped skull has researchers ...

Throughout human history, our understanding of the past has been reset countless times based on what we think we know at the time. The same goes for other incredible archaeological discoveries that ...

Evidence of feasting in the Hebrides 5,000 years ago and the discovery of a lost medieval settlement in the Borders have been ...

Twenty-two archaeological excavation and research projects were honored at the sixth Shanghai Archaeology Forum, jointly ...

Archaeologists in Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang Province have uncovered a prehistoric site dating back to 4,100 years ago. The discovery not only pushes the recorded history of civilization in Cixi, a ...