Archaeologists unearthed the first Aztec death whistles, also known as ehecachichtlis, in 1999 while excavating the ...

Archaeological discoveries indicate that alphabetic writing dates back 500 years earlier than previously believed. What ...

Four clay cylinders inscribed with what might be the oldest known evidence of alphabetic writing are 500 years older than other early alphabets, according to new research.

Greece's second largest city, Thessaloniki, is getting a brand new subway system that will showcase archaeological ...

A new discovery of the world's oldest known alphabetic writing was made at Tell Umm-el Marra, an urban site in Syria that can ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

In Germany’s Blätterhöhle cave, students and archaeologists uncovered a 9,000-year-old fireplace and prehistoric weapons, ...

Now, new research ... history. Ancient DNA sequenced from bone fragments preserved within the plaster casts at the Pompeii site has upended some long-held assumptions about bodies found together.

Photos show a few of these ancient tools. A pile of Paleolithic artifacts found at Soii Havzak. Photo from Zaidner and Kurbanov (2024) Excavations also uncovered “hundreds of bones” weighing ...