In the spring of 1521, the Rhineland town as old as Rome, ‘Worms’, witnessed an event that was destined to alter the history of Christendom forever.

In the dark rock shelter of Riparo Tagliente in Italy's Lessini Mountains, the fragmentary skeleton of a young man, interred more than 17,000 years ago, provides a chilling window (and reminder) into ...

In the desolate land of northwest China's Xinjiang province, archaeologists have unearthed something that reveals early settlement and cultural habits at the intersection of Central Asia.

Deep in the green border of Kenya and Tanzania is a volcanic crater lake that quietly keeps an ancient geophysical journal.

Beneath the ancient Maya city of Dos Pilas in northern Guatemala, archaeologists recently made a grim discovery that reveals ...

David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King's College London, was browsing Harvard Law School Library's online collections in December 2023 when he stumbled on something odd: a manuscript ...

In a mountainous area of eastern Turkey, a team of American researchers believes they may have uncovered the remnants of one of history's most legendary vessels—Noah’s Ark.

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, the archaeologists discovered ...

A Yiddish music hall song from around 1900 jokes that East Enders live on “poteytes un gefrayte fish” – a Yiddish version of the cockney staple fish and chips. The song lists the many novelties that ...

John Long/The ConversationThe emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans.Our new discovery, published today in Nature, ...

In the still soil under a church in Lund, southern Sweden, archaeologists have discovered the skeletal remains of a man whose ...

In groundbreaking work from the University of Warwick, researchers have found that wild orangutans vocalise with a layered complexity previously thought to be unique to human communication, suggesting ...