The souls of the dead are accompanied by a psychopomp to the other side, but uncompleted burial rites lead to ghosts visiting the living.

Archaeologists have discovered a rare Maya canoe in a cenote during excavations for a controversial train project.

Latest dating of an ancient dugout canoe found under Lake Mendota dates dates about 5,200 years - older than the Great Pyramid - revealing long Indigenous use of Great Lakes waterways.

The Russian RIA news agency has reported a remarkable find of an ancient Greek Corinthian helmet. The discovery was made in the Taman Peninsula in the southwest of Russia. The helmet was unearthed during the excavation of a Greek necropolis in the area by the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IA RAS).

A team of archaeologists has detected a conurbation of houses at a hill fort that once hosted some of the earliest occupants of a New Forest town, an area of southern England which includes one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in Britain.

Did Ötzi the Iceman carry a cancer-linked strain of HPV? New genetic analysis suggests HPV16 may have been with modern humans far longer than previously thought.

A princely Anglo-Saxon burial with a harnessed horse was found among 11 burials at Sizewell C in Suffolk, revealing elite early medieval funerary traditions and rare sand silhouettes.

The harnessing of fire shaped human evolution in a variety of ways. Taming the flame changed what we ate, how and where we lived, and our very biology.

Papua New Guinea is a Pacific island state, forged in volcanic fire, with a cultural diversity and colorful customs of ancient trade routes.

A rare bone stylus found in ancient Greek colony, Gela, shows Dionysus, and an explicit fertility symbol, raising fresh questions about craft, protection, and taboo in Greek Sicily.