An earthenware piece bearing a drawing of what might be a female shaman was uncovered during excavation work in western Japan, local officials announced. The discovery at the Shimizukaze ancient ...

Archaeologists say they have dug up a woman skeleton dating to the 10th century B.C. in an ancient necropolis in the heart of Rome. The well-preserved skeleton appears to be that of a woman aged ...

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — The Royal and Ancient Golf Club announced its first seven female members on Thursday, including Swedish great Annika Sorenstam and Britain's Princess Anne. The club ...

Only Female Mosquitoes Suck Blood. Ancient Male Mosquitoes Likely Did, Too A new fossil discovery raises the question of why and when males lost the ability to bite ...

The statue will be part of “Ancient Huasteca Women: Goddesses, Warriors and Governors” at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. By Zoë Lescaze The woman, carved in pale stone, wears ...

VIENNA — An Austrian museum says skeletal remains found in an ancient grave are that of a woman metal worker — the first indication that women did such work thousands of years ago.

Female big-game hunters may have been surprisingly common in the ancient Americas. A woman buried 9,000 years ago with her hunting toolkit is shedding new light on gender roles ...

The discovery of a 9,000-year-old female skeleton buried with what archaeologists call a “big-game hunting kit” in the Andes highlands of Peru has challenged one of the most widely held tenets ...

Scientists exhumed the 9,000-year-old remains of the female hunter from an ancient Peruvian burial ground and suggest that prehistoric women were no strangers to hunting.

CAIRO-- Egypt says archaeologists have discovered the head of a wooden statue, likely belonging to a female regent who ruled the country more than 4,000 years ago. Wednesday's statement by the ...

The queen might've been ancient Egypt's first female ruler Credit: EC Köhler. The discovery of hundreds of wine jars was made about 10 km from the Nile River by archaeologists from the University ...

Ancient Hunting Kit Found: The 6,500-year-old weapons, found in a cave in West Texas, could be among the oldest near-complete set of wood and stone hunting tools found in North America.