Recent research has led to new conclusions about the origin of writing with important new understanding on human cognitive ...

The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but recent research shows how it matches up to ...

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Archaeology studies the human past through the excavation of things people made and used thousands of years ago -- from architecture to objects like pottery bowls and animal bones from meals. Although ...

The Guardian reported that two neolithic stone circles were discovered within Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England. The ...

Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in what’s ...

Pandora is the trending news editor at Live Science. She is also a science presenter and previously worked as Senior Science and Health Reporter at Newsweek. Pandora holds a Biological Sciences ...

A recent preliminary study by Ph.D. student Leonie Hoff of the University of Oxford, published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, provides insight into how ancient fingerprints left on ...

Denisovans interbred with early humans multiple times, leaving genes that helped modern humans adapt to varied environments, ...

Researchers say the ship, found in 2013 near a Kenyan coastal town, is a Portuguese vessel and may have been the sailor’s ...