Handaxe, lower paleolithic, about 1.8 million years old, hard green volcanic lava (phonolite), 23.8 x 10 cm, found at...
Archaeology
A statue of Isis, the Ancient Egyptian goddess, and a head from a human-sized statue of a...
The team of donkeys walks past the mud mosque laden with with their heavy items of transport....
A 2,000-year-old intact and inscribed sundial – one of only a handful known to have survived –...
Wooden beams used in ancient structures in the Mesa Verde region, such as this one examined by...
Lead archaeologist Lyudmil Vagalinski shows the last of the total of four ancient shrines discovered after every...
Tiny samples taken from ancient European skulls, in a process shown here, yielded enough DNA for researchers...
Photos retrieved from a simple search of Instagram for “Human Skulls”, collected July 10, 2017 By...
An aerial view of the Ancient Thracian mound which has turned out to hide the ruins of...
The skull of a Neandertal known as Shanidar 1 show signs of a blow to the head...
This diagram depicts part of the Late Neolithic farmhouse with the position of the postholes. Drawing: Archaeologist...
Preliminary photogrammetric model of Black Sea MAP’s final discovery of 2017. A Roman ship lying in over...
The western fortress wall of the Ancient Roman city of Ratiaria near Bulgaria’s Danube town of Archar,...
Some of the newly discovered 3,400-year-old vessels from the Bronze Age necropolis in Bulgaria’s Baley. Photo: BNT By...
A baby mummy and pieces of skull from two Triceratops underwent computed tomography (CT) scans at Washington...
Researchers analysed DNA extracted from 4,000-year-old human remains to reveal that more than 90% of Lebanese ancestry...
Palace Acropolis at the Maya city of El Peru-Waka in northern Guatemala. (Map by Damien Marken) 09.12.2017...
What sounds did the people of Chaco Canyon hear during daily life? David E. Witt By Kristy...
The foundations of the church are currently lying in water about 1.5 to two meters deep. It...
Siayan Island / Creative Commons By Dr. Peter Bellwood (left), Dr. Eusebio Z. Dizon (center),...
A view of the city of Athens, painted by Richard Temple (1810). By Dr Leonidas Kallivretakis Historian...
Peasant Wedding, 1567, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. / Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna By Dr. Brian Hayden /...
Jean-Jacques Hublin, MPI-EVA, Leipzig By Dr. Matthew Skinner / 06.07.2017 Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology University of...
Study finds that ancient Egyptians were most closely related to ancient populations from the Middle East and...
By Dr. Maria Pantelidou/Gofa Acting Professor of Archaeology University of Athens The city we live in, this...
By Dr. Jessi Halligan / 08.05.2016 Assistant Professor of Anthropology Florida State University The rain was mercifully...
Pompeii; via di Mercurio with Mount Vesuvius. Photo: Carlo Mirante (Source: Flickr Creative Commons) By Dr. Sebastian...
Mycenaean Grave Circle A / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Andrew J. Koh / 04.27.2016 Professor of Classical...
Lecture by Dr. Charlotte Roberts at the Museum of London / 10.26.2015 Professor of Archaeology Durham University...
Excavation of the burial site of Richard III / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Sarah Tarlow / 09.14.2015...