In a groundbreaking discovery that reshapes our understanding of Mediterranean prehistory, archaeologists uncovered the earliest and largest known agricultural complex in Africa outside the Nile Valle ...

The iconic image of the shattered statues of Queen Hatshepsut has long been interpreted as evidence of political vengeance - an aggressive attempt by her successor, Thutmose III, to erase her memory.

New research has cast doubts over suggestions an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland more than 5,000 years ago.Researchers examined the evidence from burials of individual ...

A rare and remarkable discovery at the sprawling Copper Age megasite of Valencina in southwestern Spain is reshaping our understanding of prehistoric Iberian society and its relationship with the sea.

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

The largest ever collections of a painted Roman wall plaster have been unearthed in London’s Southwark area, pieced together after 1,800 odd years from amongst the remains of an early Roman building, ...

For over a decade, the Denisovans were anthropology's most mysterious cousins — a ghost line whose existence was known almost solely from ancient DNA, a child's pinky bone, and a rumor of genes that s ...

What they discovered was a tipping point at about 70,000 years ago: humans began to migrate to tropical rainforests in West and Central Africa, dry deserts such as the Sahara, and regions with extreme ...

A sequence of footprints hidden deep within a long-dried paleo‑lake bed were discovered in 2021 by archaeologists, pushing back the purported arrival of early North American settlers between 23,000 an ...

Following over two decades of research, scientists at the Australian National Maritime Museum have asserted in no uncertain terms that they've located one of the most famous ships of maritime history ...

Travel back 20,000 years into the last Ice Age, to a time when the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains were treeless and the ridgelines and mountain peaks laden in snow and ice.At an elevation of 1,07 ...

An astonishing medieval sword, unearthed from a riverbed in the Netherlands, is now capturing the imagination of archaeologists and museum goers alike.