Archaeologists used to think that the Clovis people were the first inhabitants of the Americas some 13,500 years ago. The evidence from these ancient sites says ... more than 12,000 years old ...

Crops don't generally thrive in desert-like ground, but 1000 years ago farmers in Israel utilised refuse such as ash and ...

Weitzel also noted that the Natchez Trace itself was an ancient ... sites in the U.S. is Poverty Point, which dates back 3,500 years. "Native Americans built this mound complex 3,500 years ago ...

Palmyra is one of the most famous sites in Syria for its extraordinary heritage and archaeological remains. Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1980, the city saw much of its heritage destroyed ...

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the Earth’s magnetic field went haywire. The compelling 2021 study tells the ...

While most of the world was in lockdown, a team of 15 researchers carefully scraped thousands of years of soot, dirt, and ...

Archaeologists recently stumbled across a medieval pagan cult site in the Netherlands where they found a bounty of treasure. The findings were published in the journal Medieval Archaeology.

A researcher looking at erosion along a Canada river discovered an ancient indigenous site. Screengrab from ... Siberia into Alaska around 13,000 years ago to populate North America for the ...

Morocco, a country with a rich and diverse history, is home to some of the most breathtaking ancient sites in Africa. Among them stands Volubilis, an incredibly well-preserved Roman city near ...

Artificial intelligence is even peering through the most impenetrable of artifacts: ancient, charred scrolls ... a glimpse into a time nearly 1,000 years ago that served as a key turning point ...