According to a statement released by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, people living some 5,000 years ago in the ...

Saxon cemetery containing at least 11 burial mounds has been found near the coast in the East of England, about 15 miles from the site of Sutton Hoo, where an Anglo-Saxon ship burial was excavated in ...

A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.

Huge carved obelisks and stelas in northern Ethiopia were erected by the kings of the Aksum Empire, who ruled the Horn of Africa and Red Sea region for much of the first millennium A.D. The toppled ...

Excavations at the ancient Anatolian city of Kanesh in Turkey have revealed a district where merchants from the distant Mesopotamian city of Assur in Iraq lived and worked. Some 23,000 cuneiform ...

Tens of thousands of Vikings flowed into northern England beginning in the late 9th century, first as an invading army and then as a wave of migrants. A 10th-century illustration depicts a Viking ...

A simply made doll consisting of a face carved into a broken piece of a wooden kayak rib, dating to 1550 to 1650, was found at the site. In recent years, Quinhagak, a small southwestern Alaskan ...