Discover the groundbreaking ancient DNA study revealing 15,800-year-old dogs in Anatolia. Ice Age hunter-gatherers domesticated and buried their canine companions like family members.

Archaeologists discover the lost medieval town of Stolzenberg in a Polish forest. LiDAR and geophysical surveys reveal a fortified settlement abandoned under mysterious circumstances.

The allure of aphrodisiacs stretches far back into the annals of human history. One of the most dangerous choices was the highly toxic blowfish.

A stone with mysterious carvings, possibly dating from the Anglo-Saxon or Viking era, had been on sale as a garden or

New archaeological research reveals that Raknehaugen, Scandinavia's largest burial mound, may actually be a ritual monument built in response to a catastrophic landslide following the AD 536 climate crisis.

Canada has confirmed the discovery of remains washed up on its shore are of Irish emigrants fleeing the potato famine who died in the 1847 Carricks shipwreck.

Sligo County has many Irish Neolithic sites and monuments, but these ancient sites are steadily being destroyed by over-tourism, vandalism, and outright theft.

Technology began with Hephaestus, or Vulcan, the world´s first metallurgist, according to Greek mythology. His workshop – a sparkling dwelling of bronze- was on Mount Olympus.

An ape fossil from Egypt, of the species Masripithecus, challenges the long-held view that modern apes originated in East Africa, pointing instead to northern Afro-Arabia as the true birthplace.

Archaeologists have found a 440-year-old silver coin that confirms the exact location of Port Famine, a tragic 1584 Spanish colony in the Strait of Magellan.