Archaeologists in Mexico are studying stingray barbs and a catfish spine recovered from ancient burials along the Maya Train route, with researchers investigating whether the objects were connected to ritual bloodletting and self-sacrifice.
Dozens of men discovered shackled in mass graves near ancient Athens were overwhelmingly local to the region rather than foreign invaders, according to new scientific research that sheds fresh light on a violent episode in the political history of Archaic Greece.
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.
Archaeologists from the Berlin State Office for Monument Protection have uncovered a tomb during renovation works at the historic Buch Castle Church.
Archaeologists from the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology (LDA) Saxony-Anhalt have uncovered 4,500-year-old warrior graves linked to the Bell Beaker Culture near Förderstedt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.