Archaeologists have identified what is believed to be one of the oldest known representations of the mythical Maya hero Juun Ajaw in a mural discovered within Structure II at the ancient city of Calakmul in Campeche, Mexico.

New research has revealed that one of the most distinctive bronze artefacts unearthed at China's Sanxingdui archaeological site was assembled from components made in different regions and at different times, offering fresh evidence of ancient trade networks and advanced metalworking techniques.

An iron sword discovered beside the remains of a child at an Iron Age settlement in central France is providing archaeologists with rare insight into the social and ritual practices of the Gauls more than 2,400 years ago.

Archaeologists excavating a medieval neighbourhood in the Russian city of Vladimir have uncovered a rare group of lead seals that have been identified as belonging to Princess Maria Vsevolzha, wife of Grand Prince Vsevolod III "the Big Nest" and one of the most influential women in pre-Mongol Rus'.

Archaeologists excavating the prehistoric site of Pasha Tepe in Azerbaijan's Jalilabad district have uncovered a rare polished stone sphere that researchers say has no known parallels in the South Caucasus.

Researchers have identified four more crew members from Sir John Franklin's ill-fated 1845 Arctic expedition using DNA analysis, shedding new light on one of history's greatest exploration mysteries and resolving a debate that has lasted more than 160 years.

For more than a decade, Polish scientists have been unravelling a genetic mystery hidden beneath churches, crypts and long-forgotten royal burial sites across Central Europe. Their goal has been to trace the biological origins of the Piast dynasty, the ruling family that established the Polish state more than a millennium ago.

A mass grave containing the remains of 14 German soldiers has been discovered near the village of Bolemin in western Poland.

A new international study is challenging long-held ideas about what happened in Central Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

A new genetic study has revealed striking details about the practice of human sacrifice in early Korean society, suggesting that those buried alongside elites were not outsiders, but often part of the same extended communities.

Archaeologists in north-western Poland have overturned a long-standing local legend after uncovering the remains of a German soldier in a forest near the small West Pomeranian settlement of Zdanów, historically known as Zankhof.

Researchers in Germany have unveiled a new artificial intelligence tool capable of identifying individual variations in cuneiform writing, marking a major breakthrough in the study of the ancient Near East.

A fifteenth-century manuscript held for decades in the collection of Heidelberg University Library has been identified as part of the famed Bibliotheca Palatina, one of the most important libraries of the Renaissance.

New research suggests Dante Alighieri’s Inferno may have done more than shape literary history — it may also have anticipated concepts in planetary impact science centuries before modern meteoritics emerged.

Researchers in the UK say they have reconstructed 42 missing pages from a major early Christian manuscript, using imaging and dating techniques to reveal text unseen for centuries.

Work beneath Frombork Cathedral has brought to light a collection of burial items linked to Warmian canons, including silk garments, cushions and a group of rarely seen chalices.

Researchers have confirmed that human remains found in Stajnia Cave in Poland belong to Neanderthals, based on new analysis of teeth and ancient DNA.

A study, led by Dr. Marina Lozano of IPHES-CERCA, has found dental remains belonging to three Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) in Abreda Cave.

Researchers suggests that early humans were hunting, skinning, and eating beavers around 400,000-years-ago.

A study conducted by CNRS has determined who the first modern humans to settle in Europe were.

Archaeologists from the University of Liverpool and Aberystwyth University have discovered a wooden structure dating from at least 476,000-years-ago, the earliest known example to date.

A study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE has provided evidence to date the age and origin of engravings discovered on a cave wall in France.

According to a recent study, the portrayal of predatory dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus rex in movies such as Jurassic Park, with permanently exposed teeth, may not be accurate. Instead, it is believed that these dinosaurs had scaly, lizard-like lips that covered and sealed their mouths.

Palaeontologists have found the remains of an Ichthyosaur on the island of Spitsbergen, located in the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norway.

One of Turkey’s most impressive geological wonders is Pamukkale (meaning "cotton castle"), renowned for its sinter terraced formations created by calcite-rich springs.

Sapphires are among the most precious gems, yet they consist solely of chemically “contaminated” aluminum oxide, or corundum.

Archaeologists have found traces of a climate disaster 1500-years-ago that might have inspired the legend of Ragnarök from Norse mythology.

The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) proposes that a cometary or meteoric body exploded over the North American area sometime around 12,900-years-ago.

Archaeologists have found that Pleistocene hunter-gatherers settled in Cyprus thousands of years earlier than previously thought.

A woolly mammoth unearthed in Bavaria bears signs that Ice Age humans butchered its carcass more than 25,000 years ago, offering an insight into life in one of the coldest periods of the last Ice Age.

Archaeologists have found the remains of a Peruvian hairless dog breed that dates back about 1,300 years, shedding new light on the function of dogs in ancient Andean societies.

Horses were being ridden, managed, and exchanged centuries earlier than previously believed, according to new research that is reshaping the story of horse domestication and its impact on human history.

The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) proposes that a cometary or meteoric body exploded over the North American area sometime around 12,900-years-ago.

A study published in the journal Prehistory Works, indicates that two objects sampled from the Villena Treasure were smithed using meteoric iron.

In a study of the Earth’s mantle, scientists have identified two compositionally distinct continent-sized anomalies which could be traces of a protoplanet which impacted with Earth during its early formation.

According to the giant-impact hypothesis (also known as the Theia Impact), the moon was formed when a giant object such as a protoplanet crashed into the Earth when the solar system was still young.