A detail from a Late Classic vase from the Peten region depicts a Maya queen (above right) with red lines painted below her eyes and a female attendant (above left) with a light patch around her ...

Live Science reports that a 4,400-year-old settlement site has been discovered in western Saudi Arabia by a team of ...

According to a report in the Derry Journal, an excavation at the seventeenth-century city walls surrounding the city of Derry ...

Burial of a 10-month-old Neanderthal with red deer jawbone leaning against the pelvis HAIFA, ISRAEL—A study conducted by Ella ...

Wall painting depicting Phaedra and Hippolytus from the House of Phaedra, Pompeii, Italy ...

DORSET, ENGLAND—Dorset View reports that a nearly complete wooden spade was uncovered in a waterlogged area near Poole Harbor in southern England by researchers from Wessex Archaeology.

A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.

BUFFALO, NEW YORK—According to a report in The New York Times, two separate studies conducted by Omer Gokcumen of the University at Buffalo and Peter Sudmant of the University of California ...

SEVILLE, SPAIN—According to an El País report, a team of researchers led by Carlos Odriozola of the University of Seville has studied replica amber beads produced by people living on the ...