A rare 2,700-year-old limestone stamp seal from Tel Yavne reveals Assyro-Levantine astral symbolism and sheds light on Iron Age religion under Assyrian rule.

Discover the fascinating story behind a 2,200-year-old bronze ring depicting Egyptian Queen Arsinoe III, recently unearthed near Anapa in southern Russia.

Discover how early Americans relied on mammoths and other Ice Age megafauna for food, tools, clothing, and survival, revealing the remarkable hunting strategies of the first people in North America.

Scientists have sequenced the first complete genome from a 4,000-year-old Egyptian, providing new evidence about the people who lived during the age of the pyramids and adding fresh insight into the long-running debate over who built Egypt's greatest monuments.

Historical investigator Graham Phillips claims to have located the long-lost remains of King Alfred the Great buried beneath a car park in Winchester, Hampshire.

Discover the rare 1,800-year-old Roman surgical tool found in Heraclea Sintica, Bulgaria, used by ancient physicians to remove bladder stones.

A new study reveals Neanderthals and modern humans exchanged technology and cultural traditions in the Levant about 59,000 years ago, challenging long-held views of their relationship.

Ancient miners extracted enormous quantities of copper from Michigan's Great Lakes region 6,000 years ago. Discover why archaeologists still debate where the missing metal ultimately went.

Did our earliest known ancestor already walk on two legs seven million years ago? The discovery of Sahelanthropus tchadensis, nicknamed "Toumaï," transformed our understanding of human origins, but scientists remain deeply divided over one crucial question. New analyses of the skull and limb bones are reigniting one of paleoanthropology's most fascinating debates: when did humanity truly stand up?

A new scientific study uses movement ecology and bioenergetics to calculate the energy costs of Hannibal's Alpine crossing, identifying the Col de la Traversette as the most likely route.