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Ultimately, these 573 fortresses redefine what we know about northern China’s prehistory. Long before the first emperors ...

Remains of what was likely a funeral feast were discovered in a 4,000-year-old jug in Africa.

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

The burial site was 4,500 years old, but archaeology society members saw enough evidence to believe it was already in use nearly 8,000 years earlier.

Researchers from the Prehistoric Studies and Research Seminar and the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Barcelona ...

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...

In early November 1927, the front pages of newspapers all over France featured photographs not of the usual politicians, aviators or sporting events, but of a group of archaeologists engaged in ...