A new DNA analysis of a 4,400-year-old skeleton from ancient Egypt has found that the individual, an elite official buried ...

Researchers have obtained the complete genome sequence of an ancient Egyptian man who lived over 4,500 years ago during the Old Kingdom period.

Paleontologists have identified a new ancient reptile from the Solnhofen limestone slabs, thanks to a chance discovery. A ...

The discovery of a Hellenistic period mansion remains in North Macedonia indicates ties with the Ancient Greek world.

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the ...

It was already the most common raw material in Mesoamerica when they arrived in the Basin of Mexico in 1200, and the use of obsidian on a broad scale dates to the Archaic period, which was from ...

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago.During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...

Feb. 1, 2022 — Ancient Indigenous people in Peru had a unique response to the looting and destruction of their ancestors' graves during the European colonial period, an international team of ...

More often than not, little remains of Archaic buildings. The mid-seventh-century B.C. Old Temple at Corinth, dedicated to the god Apollo, burned down and was replaced, obliterating most evidence ...

Excavations in the Nile Delta have revealed multi-story tower houses, a granary, a ceremonial building, and eye-catching ...

Hunter-gatherers constructed these complex networks about 4,000 years ago, during the Archaic period, a time before people in the region were practicing agriculture on a large scale, scientists ...

ABSTRACT: The Panionia, the common festival of the Ionian Greeks of Asia Minor that took place in the Panionion sanctuary, was a focal point for the development of a common Ionian identity during the ...