The discovery at the Maya site of Ucanal in Guatemala “marked a public dismantling of an old regime”—a rather pivotal moment ...

Most of us have skeletons in our closets, but they can also lurk in much less familiar places. Literally.

A study led by Professor Dan Lawrence, of Durham University in the UK, found that across 10 millennia, more unequal ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

On a windswept ridge overlooking the plains of northern Oman, a pair of ancient cymbals lay buried beneath layers of plaster ...

Proof of an ancient garden, consistent with biblical scripture, has emerged at the holiest site in Christianity — and an ...

Archaeologists in Vienna, Austria, uncovered a significant find: a Roman mass grave from the first century A.D., located ...

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

Wealth inequality began over 10,000 years ago, gradually increasing after the advent of agriculture due to population growth ...

Archaeologists have revealed their plan to dig up the site where they believe Noah's Ark is located after conducting numerous ...

We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...

While scientists have been trying to prove that the Durupinar formation - a 538-foot geological structure in eastern Turkey - ...