Polish archaeologists studying the ancient city of Porphyreon in Lebanon have pieced together the broken parts of ceramic heads to remake what they think are statues of goddesses. One of the 2,400-year-old statues is about 24 cm (9 inches) tall and 15 cm (6 inches) wide.

Archaeologists discover Denmark's oldest iron weapons, and they are quite something - 2,800-year-old gold-decorated spears at a sacred Bronze Age spring in Boeslunde, rewriting Nordic metallurgical history.

A study of 120,000-year-old bones from Israel reveals the archaic humans there practiced selective hunting of prime cattle, not mass hunting, suggesting small disconnected groups.

A number of arrowheads have recently been found in the melting glacier on the mountain Kvitingskjølen in southern Nor

New research reveals the celebrated Rutland Roman mosaic depicts a lost narrative of the Trojan War story by Aeschylus, not the more famous Homer's Iliad version.

Reseachers have just revealed the best Gjellestad Viking ship burial excavation finds to be uncovered so far.

Ancient DNA documents the population changes of foragers, herders and farmers in central and eastern Africa from the Neolithic to the Iron Age.

Climate change may have played a more important role in the extinction of Neanderthals than previously believed, acco

Scientists have discovered why some species evolved consciousness while others didn't. Birds achieved awareness without a cerebral cortex, revealing multiple evolutionary paths to conscious experience.

Underwater archaeologists have found more priceless artifacts documenting the Battle of the Egadi Islands, a Roman-Carthaginian naval battle.